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Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe (K-Pulp)
Simon Sellars
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Description for Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe (K-Pulp)
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Urbanomic
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Falmouth, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780995455078
SKU
V9780995455078
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About Simon Sellars
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.
Reviews for Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe (K-Pulp)
This is a book of critical epistemology, of questioning what it is we know, what it is we can know, about and through literary texts. The refracted fluorescence of our own critical passions and compulsions visits us outlandishly, like lights in the sky. -Brendan Gillott, Minor Literature[s] ... a brilliantly written genre mashup ... a wonderfully original ... Read more