J G Ballard's Modern Urban Dystopias | Worlds Of Speculative Fiction (lecture 63)

[@scrawnydaghost]

this is EXACTLY the kind of 4am youtube recommended content I needed

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it could fit the insomnia bill!

[@theelderskatesman4417]

Love Ballard. Baudrillard referred to him more than once. Terminal Beach is a perfect gem of a dystopian short story imo.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yes, I discuss Baudrillard in this

[@nineinchnose3529]

I agree, Terminal Beach Is haunting, and stands out in my mind.

[@JPS-hd8qz]

I became acquainted with Ballard's work in 1980 when I discovered The Burning World - and I became hooked and read everything he published. It would be a treat for the fans if one day his manuscripts would be available in book form.

[@jnestor481]

Great video. Real life becoming more dystopian by the day.

[@GregoryBSadler]

In some respects, unfortunately, yes

[@antoniegrigore5872]

Brilliant lecture!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@springbreak2021]

Wow these really interesting concepts…giving me a lot to think about today!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Good to read!

[@600469]

Thank you so much!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You’re very welcome!

[@Retrostar619]

Thank you for covering Ballard. If you're looking for good interviews with the author, i'd check out the book Extreme Metaphors. If you want a good colllection of essays, id check out user's guide to the millennium.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Here's the next Ballard session kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3mckomZmdaJbdkfeature=shared

[@dubsurgeon1742]

A wonderful overview, full of empathy and insight, thank you for making this. ~I've read pretty much all of Ballards work, the short stories are the most concise and essential, his essays sometimes their equal. His interviews are often repetitive, yet always pertinent. All the novels are brilliant (well, except Wind from Nowhere which is mostly 'fun James Bond Catastrophe' pulp work with Ballardian symbolism), yet Crash is the least 'enjoyable'. I totally concur with your views on Crash, it does become increasing boring , and that in no way lessens it brilliance, but is intrinsic with Ballards aims and technique. The earliest parts of it are also very funny though, which most folk seem to miss... all those symbolic/correspondent catastrophes married with people's fundamental psychodynamics. The part about Jean Baudrillard was great, and very relevant to these times. He does tend to say provocative things by pushing things to the extreme, hopefully to make his reader respond and disagree about their absolute affirmation! I enjoyed AMERICA the most of all his work I've read, which is of course a very different type of work from him in a fundamental way.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@johnkennedy2599]

I always thought daydreams and hopes were real human qualities, business and commerce: artefacts; is it more obvious today?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Not sure what you're saying here

[@johnkennedy2599]

@@GregoryBSadler I was disagreeing with J G Ballard’s idea about the outer world of work and social relationships having once been real and now fiction, and the inner world of the imagination being fiction at any time.

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@johnkennedy2599 Well, now that you write what you mean clearly, I get it. And I also think he's wrong about that