Applied Ballardianism

Memoir from a Parallel Universe

Simon Sellars (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2018
Urbanomic Media Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-9954550-7-8 (ISBN)

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An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm.

The mediascapes of late capitalism reconfigure erotic responses and trigger primal aggression; under constant surveillance, we occupy simulations of ourselves, private estates on a hyperconnected globe; fictions reprogram reality, memories are rewritten by the future...

Fleeing the excesses of 1990s cyberculture, a young researcher sets out to systematically analyse the obsessively reiterated themes of a writer who prophesied the disorienting future we now inhabit. The story of his failure is as disturbingly psychotropic as those of his magus-J.G. Ballard, prophet of the post-postmodern, voluptuary of the car crash, surgeon of the pathological virtualities pulsing beneath the surface of reality.

Plagued by obsessive fears, defeated by the tedium of academia, yet still certain that everything connects to Ballard, his academic thesis collapses into a series of delirious travelogues, deranged speculations and tormented meditations on time, memory, and loss. Abandoning literary interpretation and renouncing all scholarly distance, he finally accepts the deep assignment that has run throughout his entire life, and embarks on a rogue fieldwork project: Applied Ballardianism, a new discipline and a new ideal for living. Only the darkest impulses, the most morbid obsessions, and the most apocalyptic paranoia can uncover the technological mutations of inner space.

An existential odyssey inextricably weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm-a world become unmistakably Ballardian.

Simon Sellars is a writer and editor. He is the custodian of ballardian.com, and the co-editor of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008.

1. Kick the Dog; 2. Car City; 3. Out of Phase; 4. Lossy; 5. Queens of the Cyber Age; 6. This Alien Earth; 7. Paralipsis; 8. Threshold Moment; 9. Kill the Head and the Body Will Die; 10. Tohoku Rising; 11. The Man from Morioka; 12. Deep Assignments; 13. Bunker Logic; 14. Biomechanoid; 15. Replication; 16. Cocoon; 17. Cartographies of the Infinite; 18. Cubist Dream; 19. Untourism; 20. New Victims; 21. Fugue State; 22. Time Wars; 23. Metanoia; 24. Lost in Saipan; 25. Malign Potential; 26. Airless and Casino Black; 27. Flab; 28. Stasis; 29. Ballardcraft; 30. Black Shadow; 31. Sick Music; 32. Dangerous Bends; 33. Melborea Moronica; 34. Suicide by Thug; 35. Hostile Takeover; 36. Applied Ballardianism; 37. Roaring Mice; 38. Mental Polaroids; 39. Vat-grown; 40. Hangar Three; 41. Skyspace; 42. Solace in Dystopia; 43. Thirsty Men; 44. Kick Me; 45. State of Mind; 46. Purple Light; 47. Photoreality; 48. Scalar; 49. Emergence; 50. Wire Music; 51. Memory Hole; 52. Shadowplay; 53. James et Jim; 54. Negative Space; 55. Sleepy Brain; 56. Memory Hacker

Erscheinungsdatum	24.12.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	0-9954550-7-4 / 0995455074
ISBN-13	978-0-9954550-7-8 / 9780995455078
Zustand	Neuware