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Listing ID: 1276
Title: Ballardian
Description: A very unofficial site exploring tropes and motifs found in the work of J.G. Ballard.
Category: Arts, Art & Artists : Literature : Authors
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listed on: July 11, 2008 09:46:02 PM
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Recent Posts:
| ‘Take off your glasses, Corey’: Piercing the Veil of J.G. Ballard’s Billboard Fictions - Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:13:06 +0000 |
| Billboards loom large in Ballard's work, symbol of the wraparound reality that advertising and consumerism represents. But the imagery is more than metaphor: he actually aimed to pierce the fourth wall of his fiction. This article examines the role of billboards and 'wraparound media' in Ballard with reference to a number of disturbing trends in recent Australian media history. |
| Grand Theft Auto IV: Ballardian atrocities - Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:33:05 +0000 |
| Autogeddon: Martin Pichlmair on the connection between Ballard and Grand Theft Auto IV. |
| ‘Architectures of the Near Future’: An Interview with Nic Clear - Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:41:43 +0000 |
| Nic Clear leads the remarkable Unit 15 course on the built environment at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. In this interview, Nic explains the course's focus on the work of Ballard as a way to counter the lamentable state of current discourse on architecture. The article includes clips of six stunning films produced by students as part of this Ballard-inspired methodology. |