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Link John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the…

March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects…
“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.”…

September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments
Link Myths of a Near Future: Simon Sellars, Bruce…
Two years ago, I appeared on a panel, ‘Myths of a Near Future’, with writer Bruce Sterling and V. Vale of RE/Search Publications to discuss the work of J.G. Ballard.…

November 15 2010, 3:31am | Comments
Link Declaration on the Notion of “The Future”
The International Necronautical Society now entering its eleventh year, the First Committee has recently come under pressure to release, in keeping with the INS’s avant-garde demeanor, some kind of “statement”…

November 1 2010, 3:42am | Comments
Link J.G. Ballard reviews Chris Marker's La Jetee
This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else.

September 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Link Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard
Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts…

July 25 2010, 7:13am | Comments

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