Tag: J.G. Ballard

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war

J. G. Ballard | war

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

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technology

J. G. Ballard | technology

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

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science

J. G. Ballard | science

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

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science

J. G. Ballard | science

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

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J. G. Ballard | imagination

I don’t think it’s possible to touch people’s imagination today by aesthetic means.

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humor

J. G. Ballard | humor

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

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future

J. G. Ballard | future

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

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future

J. G. Ballard | future

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn’t in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

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future

J. G. Ballard | future

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

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freedom

J. G. Ballard | freedom

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

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