A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
J.G. BallardThe endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.
J.G. BallardTags: tv bomb nuclear psychosis
Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.
J.G. BallardI suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic
J.G. BallardIf their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.
J.G. BallardThe twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
J.G. BallardSooner or later, all games become serious.
J.G. BallardShe had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless—an interesting logic was at work there.
J.G. BallardTags: sex nudity automobile car cars automobiles symphorophilia topless
One looks forward to the day when the General Theory of Relativity and the Principia will outsell the Kama Sutra in back-street bookshops.
J.G. BallardI love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower
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