Tone Deaf Elitism And Modern Dystopia At The Met Gala
The Met Gala using J.G. Ballard’s apocalyptic short story The Garden of Time as a fashion theme is astonishingly clueless.
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You, My Night – Jacques Sternberg’s Existentialist Sexual Dystopia
From Toi, ma nuit to Sexualis ’95 – the story of a strange novel that mixes nihilism and hedonism into a very 1960s French study of obsession and ennui.
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Cronenberg Meets Ballard: Super-Cannes Heads Towards TV
Ballard, Cronenberg and insular, isolated communities going insane – it sounds the perfect combination.
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Four-Dimensional Nightmares: The Penguin Book Covers Of David Pelham
The legendary designer’s iconic and challenging science fiction paperback covers from the 1970s.
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Cronenberg Is Crashed Out Of Cinemas Again
David Cronenberg’s unsettling adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel is once again too dangerous for public showings.
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Out Of The Unknown – The Pioneering British Science Fiction TV Series
The classic and literary BBC sci-fi series from the 1960s.
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Enjoy The Wet Sounds Of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World
An immersive and watery performance of Ballard’s dystopian novel at this year’s Essex Book Festival.
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Ten Monologues From The Lives Of The Serial Killers
Aryan Kaganof’s bleak, uncompromising and experimental study of true crime confessions.
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