Applied Ballardianism, Simon Sellars (reseña en inglés)
The Ballardian Desert Ballardian times . In Mark Fisher’s books, Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life , and in Simon Reynolds’ Retromania , it is proposed that late capitalism has exhausted the future. For the last examples of meaningful cultural theory concerning the future, we must return to the late 90s and stand-out texts such as Kodwo Eshun’s More Brilliant than the Sun (although we might consider The Matrix , too, with its "peak of human civilisation" stuck in 1999). For much of the mainstream, and as a more-or-less general description of the 21 st century’s globalised culture, the future has dissolved into an ineffable present, and the past has become a theme park – as in Stranger Things . And the most curious thing: none of this is surprising, because forty years ago J.G. Ballard made that idea the core of his work. At first, he did it in a catastrophic or post-apocalyptic way (as in his early novels The Drowned World , The Drought and The Crystal ...