J.G.Ballard on Sensation

in Books, Film, Literature | April 19th, 2009 1 Comment

J.G. Ballard, the author of Crash and Empire died at 78 this weekend. Here we have a short interview from 1986 where he talks about how violent sensations now lubricate our modern world. It’s this line of thinking that finds its way into Crash, a controversial book that David Cronenberg brought to the big screen in 1996.


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  1. Stephen says . . . | April 25, 2009 / 10:35 am

    Last short story published by the Guardian here – http://bit.ly/nDOK3

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