Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those langua… - J. G. Ballard
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those langua…
- J. G. Ballard
All you do is get on and start pedaling . . . - J. G. Ballard
All you do is get on and start pedaling . . .
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. - J. G. Ballard
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. - J. G. Ballard
I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime. - J. G. Ballard
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
The only truly alien planet is Earth. - J. G. Ballard
The only truly alien planet is Earth.
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. - J. G. Ballard
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. - J. G. Ballard
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates,… - J. G. Ballard
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates,…
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