Ballardian - ballardian.com - Ballardian
General Information:
Latest News:
‘No Original Response’: J.G. Ballard predicts Social Media, CCTV, Reality TV 3 Jul 2013 | 04:38 pm
Above: J.G. Ballard. Photo by Simon Durrant, from i-D magazine, 1987. Above: Excerpt from Ballard’s 1977 Vogue essay (via Gideon Defoe). Response to a post at Buzzfeed on how J.G. Ballard “predicted...
Cosmic Sentinels and Spiral Jetties: J.G. Ballard, Robert Smithson & Tacita Dean 3 Mar 2013 | 09:37 am
Tacita Dean's new film, JG, is currently on view at the Arcadia University Art Gallery. JG is inspired by Dean's correspondence with J.G. Ballard, and explores connections between his short story 'The...
‘Zones of Transition’: Micronationalism in the work of J.G. Ballard 28 Dec 2012 | 08:51 am
Simon Sellars re-reads Ballardian space in light of the idiosyncratic, real-world phenomenon of micronations. Tracing parallels between Ballard's physical and psychological spaces or 'zones' of suspen...
Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008 23 Sep 2012 | 01:07 pm
Announcing the publication of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008, the first-ever collection of interviews with J.G. Ballard. Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara, the book inc...
‘Dead Astronaut’: RIP Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012 26 Aug 2012 | 08:02 pm
In the wake of Neil Armstrong's death, we recall Ballard's enigmatic relationship to the First Man on the Moon.
In Defence of the Virtual: A Secret History of Ballardian Film Adaptations 12 Mar 2012 | 02:08 am
by Simon Sellars Originally published in the Norwegian-language magazine Vagant, May-August 2011, pp. 10-11. It appears here in English for the first time. In 1986, Christian Bale, as a child actor,...
David Pelham: The Art of Inner Space 26 Feb 2012 | 11:52 pm
David Pelham: The Art of Inner Space David Pelham’s painting for JG Ballard’s short story, My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (1974). Signed print courtesy wire-frame. by James Pardey David Pelham w...
Apollo Roulette, Part 2 7 Feb 2012 | 01:58 am
APOLLO ROULETTE, PART 2 by Brian Baker In part 2 of ‘Apollo Roulette’, Brian Baker’s sequel to ‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’, an ‘auto-displacement’ Ian Fleming/J.G. Ballard mashup, Ba...
Apollo Roulette: part 1 26 Jan 2012 | 04:29 pm
APOLLO ROULETTE, PART 1 by Brian Baker In this sequel to ‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’, an ‘auto-displacement’ Ian Fleming/J.G. Ballard mashup, Brian Baker applies the method to desert...
‘A temporarily tame tiger’: Brigid Marlin on J.G. Ballard, Paul Delvaux and surrealist art 3 Jan 2012 | 05:11 pm
J.G. Ballard in front of Paul Delvaux’s ‘The Violation’ (as reproduced by Brigid Marlin). Photographer unknown. Interview by Andrew Bishop. Ballardian presents Andrew Bishop’s previously unpublished...
