{"product_id":"j-g-ballard-conversations-paperback","title":"J.G. Ballard Conversations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. G. Ballard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eV. Vale\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA highly sought cultural commentator, J. G. Ballard has provided thoughtful remarks on the state of the world for decades. \u003ci\u003eJ.G. Ballard Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e brings together several of Ballard's latest interviews and gives \u003cbr\u003ereaders penetrating insight into the mind of one of the freshest \u003cbr\u003ethinkers at work today. \u003c\/b\u003eCovering topics such at the 9\/11 terrorist \u003cbr\u003eattacks, the evolution of sexual relationships, and our strange, \u003cbr\u003eimmersive celebrity culture, this book is a fount of provocative takes \u003cbr\u003eon the things that matter. Rounded out with rare photographs of Ballard \u003cbr\u003eand supplemental resources, \u003ci\u003eJ.G. Ballard Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary item for anyone interested in the modern world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past will disappear and the future will go next. --JG Ballard\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.G. Ballard: \u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Shanghai November 15, 1930, James Graham Ballard\u003cbr\u003espent the first 15 years of his life in China. Interned in a Japanese camp\u003cbr\u003eduring World War II, he was repatriated to England at the age of sixteen. After\u003cbr\u003estudying medicine at Cambridge, he sold his first \"speculative fiction\" story\u003cbr\u003eto \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e in 1956 and began writing a series of planetary disaster\u003cbr\u003enovels, ultimately focusing on the \u003ci\u003einner\u003c\/i\u003e landscape in psychopathological\u003cbr\u003eclassics such as \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHigh-Rise\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1987 Steven Spielberg\u003cbr\u003emade a movie of his best-selling autobiographical work, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eFor the past 30 years J.G. Ballard has lived in Shepperton, England, home of\u003cbr\u003ethe famous film studios. {J.G. Ballard died April 19, 2009 in London, U.K.]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Pauline \u003c\/b\u003eis the founder of Survival Research Laboratories\u003cbr\u003e(SRL) whose first show was in February 1979 in San Francisco's North Beach at\u003cbr\u003eAlex's gas station. He has many SRL machine performance videos available on\u003cbr\u003eYouTube, and is currently searching for a site to put on yet another show. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround 1978 Mark Pauline, an Eckerd College, Florida\u003cbr\u003egraduate and First Generation Punk Rock Original (he went to school with Exene\u003cbr\u003eCervenka, founder of X; Exene's sister Muriel; Pee-Wee Herman aka Paul Reubens;\u003cbr\u003eand Punk Filmmaker Gordon Stevenson) moved to San Francisco. The abandoned\u003cbr\u003efactories of the South of Market area, filled with rusting machinery, inspired\u003cbr\u003eMr. Pauline, an experienced welder and metal fabricator, to create an Art based\u003cbr\u003eon the recycling of industrial technology. He incorporated a knowledge of\u003cbr\u003eFuturism: the first Art Movement to extoll the beauty of speed, machines, and\u003cbr\u003ewar; and Dada\/Surrealism, which championed the Absurd, Black Humor, the\u003cbr\u003eImagination and the Dream. Mr. Pauline has cited Raymond Rousssel's two books, \u003ci\u003eImpressions\u003cbr\u003eof Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLocus Solus\u003c\/i\u003e, as being particularly inspiring. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost singlehandedly a new darkly humorous and savage \"Art\u003cbr\u003eGenre\" was created: MACHINE PERFORMANCE ART. Beyond creating mere \"Art\u003cbr\u003eMachines,\" Mr. Pauline deployed a kind of multi-dimensional \"Maximalist\"\u003cbr\u003espirit, generating as many metaphors and surprises as possible, while always\u003cbr\u003eprobing the boundaries of \"freedom.\" Authoritarian\/totalitarian conventions and\u003cbr\u003ecliches are frequently lampooned in shows bearing titles such as \"A Bitter\u003cbr\u003eMessage of Hopeless Grief.\" Tolerances of the Human Body are musingly tested\u003cbr\u003ewith smoke, fluids, loud explosions, rocket launchings, fiery blasts, acrid\u003cbr\u003esmells and other phenomena, while one-of-a-kind Menacing Machine personalities\u003cbr\u003eexpress themselves to the limits of their arcane functioning. State-of-the-art\u003cbr\u003etechnological innovations involving tele-robotics and computers are\u003cbr\u003eincorporated into the continually evolving show productions, described as\u003cbr\u003emodern-day Hieronymus Bosch landscapes. Many highly-skilled and unique artists\/scientists\u003cbr\u003eare drawn to collaborate in the realization of SRL projects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe best Art is by nature prophetic, and the Machine Art\u003cbr\u003ePerformances of Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) poetically illustrate the\u003cbr\u003epsychopathological possibilities latent in modern technological innovation and\u003cbr\u003eheavy industry fabrication. Every dream, after all, deserves its nightmare.\u003cbr\u003eFusing Art, Technology and a kind of Burroughsian\/Ballardian sensibility, SRL\u003cbr\u003ecreates trail-blazing, uncompromising, fabulist Art which will impact far into\u003cbr\u003ethe future. And Mark Pauline has long been a J.G. Ballard fan, visiting the\u003cbr\u003evisionary author and interviewing him in the 1980s. His interview appears for\u003cbr\u003ethe first time in \u003ci\u003eJ.G. Ballard Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr. Pauline\/SRL has also\u003cbr\u003ebeen featured in \u003ci\u003eSearch \u0026amp; Destroy #11\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eRE\/Search #1-2-3\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003etabloids, the \u003ci\u003eIndustrial Culture Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePranks.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraeme Revell \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in New Zealand Oct 23, 1955. He\u003cbr\u003egraduated from The University of Auckland with degrees in economics and\u003cbr\u003epolitics. 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