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    J. G. Ballard

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    The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. ↗


    — J. G. Ballard

    #creatures #enlightenment #into #leads #mankind

    The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗


    — J. G. Ballard

    #fiction #film #imaginations #intensely #large

    The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. ↗


    — J. G. Ballard

    #boring #continue #follow #future #going

    What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗


    — J. G. Ballard

    #cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear

    Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. ↗


    — J. G. Ballard

    #i #i think #more #nothing #painter






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    It remains one of his iconic works and was filmed in 2001. David Cronenberg
    The Atrocity Exhibition (2001) dir. In the early 1970s Bill Butler a bookseller in Brighton was prosecuted under UK obscenity laws for selling the pamphlet.

    Ballard's novels and stories especially dystopian modernity bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological social or environmental developments. His best-known works include Crash (1973) adapted into a film by David Cronenberg and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984) made into a film by Steven Spielberg based on Ballard's boyhood in the Shanghai International Settlement and internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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