Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007322194
First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871404745
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Fiction) “J.G. Ballard is the undisputed laureate of suburban psychosis.... A brilliant novel.” —Literary Review A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport. When the prime suspect is released without charge, Richard’s suspicions are aroused. Investigating the mystery, Richard uncovers at the Metro-Centre mall a neo-fascist world whose charismatic spokesperson is whipping up the masses into a state of unsustainable frenzy. Riots frequently terrorize the complex, immigrant communities are attacked by hooligans, and sports events mushroom into jingoistic political rallies. In this gripping, dystopian tour de force, J.G. Ballard holds up a mirror to suburban mind rot, revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism.
Author : Brad Evans
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781940660462
Writings from the foremost chronicler of violence in our times, a fundamental issue for the future of the human race, looked at from every angle.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871404737
"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
Author : Amy Sodaro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813592178
Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend: the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest, Hungary; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871403420
A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature. Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiography—hailed as “fascinating [and] amazingly lucid” (Guardian)—charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as “the most original English writer of the last century.” Beginning with his Shanghai childhood, Miracles of Life guides us from the deprivations of Lunghua Camp during World War II, which provide the back story for his best-selling Empire of the Sun, to his arrival in war-torn England and his emergence as “the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity” (Observer). With prose of characteristic precision, Ballard movingly recalls his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of The Atrocity Exhibition—which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theories—and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. “This book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballard’s devotees have been pleading for years” (Independent).
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780985762513
Examining a seven year period in Ballard's career, from 1966 to 1973, this volume includes various original essays, two interviews with Ballard from the early 1970s and a selection of Ballard's works.
Author : Franco Berardi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1781687528
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Berardi Bifo traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of the neoliberalism.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871404044
"As Dr. Mallory watches his clinic fail on the parched terrain of central Africa, he dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolscent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source."--Dust jacket.
