Afterword: Changed by the Climate
All photos by Simon Sellars, Christchurch 2011. This piece was written in April 2011. It was originally published in October 2011 as the Afterword to Changing… Read More »Afterword: Changed by the Climate
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In Defence of the Virtual: A Secret History of Ballardian Film Adaptations
Originally published in the Norwegian-language magazine Vagant, May-August 2011, pp. 10-11. In 1986, Christian Bale, as a child actor, made his breakthrough in Steven Spielberg’s… Read More »In Defence of the Virtual: A Secret History of Ballardian Film Adaptations
Spatial Imagination: An Interview with Charles Holland
Charles Holland is one third of FAT Architecture. He spoke to Simon Sellars about the debate surrounding his recent remarks about architecture competitions, FAT’s print collaboration with Charles Jencks, and the novelist J.G. Ballard.
Hakim Bey: Repopulating the Temporary Autonomous Zone
Hakim Bey: Repopulating the Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Simon Sellars. Originally published in Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 4, No. 2 (FALL 2010)… Read More »Hakim Bey: Repopulating the Temporary Autonomous Zone
Postcards from the Edgelands (for Marion Shoard)
Originally published in Infrastructure as Architecture: Designing Composite Networks, Katrina Stoll & Scott Lloyd (eds), Berlin: Jovis, 2010. 37° 40′ 60S, 144° 56′ 60E All… Read More »Postcards from the Edgelands (for Marion Shoard)
‘Flesh dissolved in an acid of light’: the b-movie as second sight
This is an earlier version of an article published in Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 5 October 2010, pages 721-33. Both versions were based on a… Read More »‘Flesh dissolved in an acid of light’: the b-movie as second sight
Miracles of Life: foreword to the Greek edition
This is the foreword to the Greek edition of Ballard’s Miracles of Life, published by Oxy, November 2009. In 2006 I interviewed Jim Ballard. I… Read More »Miracles of Life: foreword to the Greek edition
‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard
“‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard”, originally published in 032c, no. 18, winter 2009/10, pp. 126-9. Simon Reynolds is one of the most… Read More »‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard
The BLDG BLOG Book: Geoff Manaugh’s Hall of Mirrors
An artificial reef in the Red Sea, which features in the Landscape Futures section. Originally published in Blueprint, 19 August 2009. Los Angeles-based Geoff Manaugh… Read More »The BLDG BLOG Book: Geoff Manaugh’s Hall of Mirrors
“Extreme Possibilities”: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J.G. Ballard’s Pacific fictions
One of the more enduring misconceptions surrounding the work of J.G. Ballard is that it operates in the classical dystopian narrative mode, [1] supposedly mining pessimism, repression and the negativity of a post-industrial age.