“I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.” HumansKindHateNumbersEmotionModelsRacismSilentAcceptedLoyaltyCardsShoppingBehaviourPinsDrainedHuman Behaviour Book:Kingdom Come Source: Kingdom Come
“Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth.” KindBookEndsNovelBlowEnormousNakedLunchConspiracyRichnessForksCozyBurroughs Author:J. G. Ballard
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel.” WorldKindFictionTechnologyMassAdvertisingInstantBranchesTranslationsImageryScience And TechnologyMerchandising Author:J. G. Ballard
“Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.” KindHomeNaturalTvsTechniqueThese DaysFabricEquipmentFurniturePresentationAnthologyAdvertisersAppliancesMotifsFurnishings Book:Conversations Source: Conversations
“Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.” PeopleIfsKindDoePlayHandsSocialFieldsActivityKillingEnlightenedAgendasLegislationEuthanasiaKilling Others Author:J. G. Ballard
“A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.” KindReadyFameInstantSoup Book:The Atrocity Exhibition Source: The Atrocity Exhibition
“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
“People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.” PeopleWayKindMaySeemsTogetherCitiesTechnologyModernAliensItalianBusTrafficOld FashionedTogethernessJamRenaissanceSocializingQueuesModern TechnologyMinglingTraffic JamCongestionEscalatorsItalian RenaissanceTraffic Congestion Author:J. G. Ballard
“Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?” KindLastsGamesViolenceDevicesThrowingPornographyResorts Book:The complete short stories Source: The complete short stories
