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Applied Ballardianism - Memoir from a Parallel Universe (Paperback)
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Applied Ballardianism - Memoir from a Parallel Universe (Paperback)
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An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and
theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction
surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global
technological delirium is the norm. The mediascapes of late
capitalism reconfigure erotic responses and trigger primal
aggression; under constant surveillance, we occupy simulations of
ourselves, private estates on a hyperconnected globe; fictions
reprogram reality, memories are rewritten by the future... Fleeing
the excesses of 1990s cyberculture, a young researcher sets out to
systematically analyse the obsessively reiterated themes of a
writer who prophesied the disorienting future we now inhabit. The
story of his failure is as disturbingly psychotropic as those of
his magus-J.G. Ballard, prophet of the post-postmodern, voluptuary
of the car crash, surgeon of the pathological virtualities pulsing
beneath the surface of reality. Plagued by obsessive fears,
defeated by the tedium of academia, yet still certain that
everything connects to Ballard, his academic thesis collapses into
a series of delirious travelogues, deranged speculations and
tormented meditations on time, memory, and loss. Abandoning
literary interpretation and renouncing all scholarly distance, he
finally accepts the deep assignment that has run throughout his
entire life, and embarks on a rogue fieldwork project: Applied
Ballardianism, a new discipline and a new ideal for living. Only
the darkest impulses, the most morbid obsessions, and the most
apocalyptic paranoia can uncover the technological mutations of
inner space. An existential odyssey inextricably weaving together
lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling
autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where
everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm-a
world become unmistakably Ballardian.
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