Civilized life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
The Benign Catastrophist
J.G. Ballard
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J. G. Ballard, November 15, 1930 – April 19, 2009.
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J.G. Ballard - The Terminal Beach (Horacio Salinas Blanch)
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excerpt from "fucking in the wreckage: after postmeodernism" by johndan johnson-eilola
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“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status — all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).”
— JG Ballard
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“I think the key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape.The sense of violence and desire, power and energy; the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signalled landscape.We spend a substantial part of our lives in the motor car, and the experience of driving condenses many of the experiences of being a human being in the 1970s, the marriage of the physical aspects of ourselves with the imaginative and technological aspects of our lives. I think the 20th century reaches its highest expression on the highway.
Everything is there: the speed and violence of our age; the strange love affair with the machine, with its own death.”
—J.G Ballard, Crash
[Poetic Outlaws]
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phoebe gloeckner, cover illustration for re/search edition of the atrocity exhibition
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Nightmare Angel is a 1986 short avant-garde film based on J.G. Ballard's novel "Crash" starring Bill Moseley as what basically is the equivalent of Vaughan's character. It's a very good and sexy adaptation but I was disappointed by the lack of gay sex so I HAD TO FIX IT. I love Ballard's obsession with Vaughan in the book, I think it's one of the best depiction of homoerotic desire. Anyway, you can watch the short on Vimeo, it's sooo good if you're into experimental cinema.
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