Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
J.G. BallardStichwörter: art dreamers poet
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.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: sex violence exploration perversion sensation
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: time deserts malls
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: death decadence burial funerals
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: future technology invisible speed automobile car
He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.
J.G. Ballard...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.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: reality reason rationality
Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: sex perversion
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.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: past future history relationships disney artificiality simulation
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.
J.G. BallardStichwörter: novels tolstoy warhol
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