J.G. Ballard

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate November 15, 1930

Zodiac Scorpio

Location Shanghai,

Country China

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Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force pilot whose body was washed ashore on a beach near Dieppe three months later. Other traces of his

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The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

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He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

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Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.

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The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century

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Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

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A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

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In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in WAR AND PEACE.

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All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

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...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.

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