Jg Ballard - Blog Posts

if tumblr shuts down we should all develop car crash fetishes and form an underground community that reenacts famous car crashes for sexual pleasure

I regard the city as a semi-extinct form. London is basically a nineteenth century city. And the habits of mind appropriate to the nineteenth century, which survive into the novels set in the London of the twentieth century, aren't really appropriate to understanding what is really going on in life today. I think the suburbs are more interesting than people will let on. In the suburbs you find uncentred lives... So that people have more freedom to explore their own imaginations, their own obsessions.

JG Ballard, Concrete Island, Introduction (1994) in Merlin Coverley's 'Psychogeography'

These works clearly demonstrate that it is the novelist rather than the theoretician who is best able to capture the relationship between the urban environment and human behaviour

Merlin Coverley in 'Psychogeography' when talking about JG Ballard, questioning some of the work of Debord and the Situationists...

Covers for a hypothetical Crash graphic novel (2022)

Fun facts: the guy is modelled after J. G. Ballard when he was young, and the way his body is broken is inspired by Jayne Mansfield's butchered Buick Electra

Crash: Homage to JG Ballard (2010)

i could die for this

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

CRASH cover by Igor Kordej (1988)

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

all this love for crash n cronenberg but i havent seen jg ballards name on my dash once

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation