‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’ by Simon Sellars. Introduction to Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967–2008, edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara, Fourth Estate, 2014. I… Read More »Extreme Metaphors: ‘A Launchpad for Other Explorations’
Map of Lunghua (Lunghwa) civilian camp, Shanghai. Courtesy Rick McGrath. This essay by Simon Sellars was originally published in J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions, Jeannette… Read More »‘Zones of Transition’: Micronationalism in the work of J.G. Ballard
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
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.
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”, 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
Robert Bond and Jenny Bavidge, editors. City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-84718-153-8. Jeannette Baxter. J G Ballard’s… Read More »Three Recent Reviews
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.
ABOVE: ‘London after the Rain’, by Ben Olszyna-Marzys. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’. Originally published… Read More »‘Architectures of the Near Future’: An Interview with Nic Clear
Photo: Simon Sellars. Originally published on ballardian.com, 11 November 2008. Sorry for the long absence — I promised ‘daily updates’, well, that didn’t happen. It’s… Read More »Kosmopolis 08: Landing Gear