![]() ![]() Over the last 50 years, Ballard's indiscriminate and unflinching gaze has worked hard to penetrate the myriad surface realities of our disturbed modernity and to tap into its unconscious energies. So what are we to make of Ballard's distinctive vision? Is his prescience born out of prophecy, or is it the product of something else?Īnother, more secular approach to Ballard's work, perhaps, is to consider it as a prolonged exercise in the close reading of contemporary culture in all of its absurdities and vulgarities. ![]() With the appearance of his 18th novel, Millennium People, Ballard demonstrated his powers of prolepsis once more: as anti-terrorist forces rolled into Heathrow airport in February 2003, Ballard was putting the finishing touches to his own work of urban terrorism, a novel which rips open with an explosion at Heathrow's Terminal 2. As Salman Rushdie noted at the time, the novelistic nature of Diana's life was not the fairytale we'd considered it to be, but a pornographic tale of sex, death and celebrity which Ballard had written 25 years previously. ![]()
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