“The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.” EnoughEnergyStarsCenturyPlanetsEnormousImmensePausesTwentieth CenturyOrbit Author:J. G. Ballard
“Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .” HellCenturyFashionRateAffairBarsGaps20th CenturySkullsDungeonsInfernoBuchenwald Author:J. G. Ballard
“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.” RealityLiteratureFictionCenturyBecomingScience FictionInvisibleAviationSci FiPredictions20th CenturyMarginsSprungSprung UpFiction And Reality Author:J. G. Ballard
“The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.” WaySoulDreamRealizingCommunityForeverMiddleCenturyPlanetsCitizensDiedNotionRuinsEnlightenedDedicatedAssociationModerationPlagueOur PlanetHumaneTwentieth CenturyCannesMiddle WaySuburbanization Book:Super-Cannes: A Novel Source: Super-Cannes: A Novel
“Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.” IfsWorldWayKindHeavenHellGraceCenturyFashionPossibilityHorrorFinalsRateAffairArchitectureGravesBarsRedemptionOne WayGapsTickets20th CenturySkullsDungeonsInfernoTerminalSpiresBuchenwald Author:J. G. Ballard
“The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.” WorldReasonDreamMovingGivenSexTechnologyOur LivesCenturyCommunicationBirthDrinkWeaponsAdvertisingLandscapeRealmsNightmareNuclear WeaponsTwins20th CenturyPornographyParanoiaAmbiguousSinisterCoexistSoft Drinks Author:J. G. Ballard
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.” SeemsTimeTermSituationNovelCenturyEventsElementsManagementLandscapeGrayTime ManagementTranslateCanvas20th CenturyCeremonyGeometryPostureAnatomyMona LisaGreatest Movie Author:J. G. Ballard
