Debord in Dubai
Another evocative feature, by Steve Rose in the Guardian, on architectural experimentation in Dubai – “There is apparently no distinction between resort architecture and permanent housing. Nor is there...
View ArticleBallardian Fractals in Dubai
Here’s a query I’m posting on behalf of Paul Williams over at the JGB Yahoo list. Can anyone help? Paul writes: “Here’s something I’m working on. It has a distinct whiff of Ballard in the collision of...
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‘No-One Dances in Ballard': An Interview with Mike Ryan
by Simon Sellars I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own a record player or a single record. I’ve never understood why, because my maternal grandparents were lifelong teachers of music, and...
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Tribute to J.G. Ballard & Brian Eno
ABOVE: Ballard, late 60s. Photo via The Terminal Collection. Vermilion Sands is a kind of cross between Palm Springs and Juan-les-Pins, a version of the leisure society we were about to enter, though...
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Dubai Ballard World
Exciting announcement of a new theme park in Dubai based on Ballard’s work: A new theme park is coming soon to Dubai. Named The Ultimate City, its theme will be the the world refracted through the...
View ArticleApplied Ballardianism forthcoming from Urbanomic in 2017
I’m excited to announce that my book, Applied Ballardianism: A Theory of Nothing, will be forthcoming from Urbanomic in late 2017. The publisher’s page for the book is here, and Urbanomic’s blurb is...
View Article“Nothing to See Here”: a Film by Paul H Williams
Nothing To See Here from Paul H Williams on Vimeo. “Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there – a city, a...
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