Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

Fictitious billboard campaign starring ‘David Cruise’, created for Ballard’s Kingdom Come. Image courtesy the Metro-Centre. Billboards loom large in Ballard’s work, symbol of the wraparound reality that advertising and media came to represent with the advent of the 60s and th...

We’re all suffocated by the consumer society and its entertainment culture, where everything is an image or imitation of something else. We’re so starved of the real, as we think of it, that we’ll happily watch CCTV footage of motorways, rain-swept precincts and corner shops. J.G. ...

“The Crashman”: An Experiment in Applied Internet Ballardianism. by the Crashman. ABOVE: ‘White Bird’ by the Crashman. ‘XB-70, Tu-144: White Bird Must Fly, or she will crash’. From the moment Blake crashes his stolen aircraft into the Thames, the unlimited dream c...

Michael Z. recently wrote to me. Michael is the developer of SurveillanceSaver, the uber-Ballardian screensaver that displays live feeds from over 600 Axis surveillance-camera networks, which I wrote about here. Michael tells me he has now released a new version for MS Windows with much more cameras...

How strange is this: Rosanna Arquette, and Crash, popping up in all sorts of places. This film, Ballard’s story, still packs a powerful psychological enema. First up, Maxim Magazine, anointing the scene with Spader/Ballard fucking Rosanna’s leg wound as no.2 in ‘The Worst Love Scen...