J. G. Ballard. High Rise. High Rise is a 1975 novel by J.
G. Ballard. It takes place in an ultra-modern, luxury high-rise building. Plot summary[edit] The building seems to give its well-established tenants all the conveniences and commodities that modern life has to offer: swimming pools, its own school, a supermarket, high-speed elevators. Life in the high-rise begins to degenerate quickly, as minor power failures and petty annoyances over neighbours escalate into an orgy of violence.
Soon, skirmishes are being fought throughout the building, as floors try to claim elevators and hold them for their own, groups gather to defend their rights to the swimming pools, and party-goers attack "enemy floors" to raid and vandalize them. Legacy[edit] The book has been cited as an influence upon the Doctor Who serial Paradise Towers. Hawkwind used the book as the basis for a song of the same name on their 1979 album PXR5. Film adaptation[edit] The Atrocity Exhibition. The Atrocity Exhibition is an experimental collection of "condensed novels" by British writer J.
G. Ballard. The book was originally published in the UK in 1970 by Jonathan Cape. After a 1970 edition by Doubleday & Company had already been printed, Nelson Doubleday, Jr. personally cancelled the publication and had the copies destroyed, fearing legal action from some of the celebrities depicted in the book. Thus, the first US edition was published in 1972 by Grove Press under the title Love and Napalm: Export USA (ISBN 0-394-48277-8). A revised large format paperback edition, with annotations by the author and illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner, was issued by RE/Search in 1990 (ISBN 0-940642-18-2). All of the 1970 book originally appeared as stories in magazines before being collected. Plot[edit] The Atrocity Exhibition is split up into fragments, similar to the style of William S. Chapter/story titles[edit] Appendix (added in 1990)[edit] Princess Margaret's Facelift.
References[edit] Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan is a short work by dystopian English author J.G.
Ballard, first published as a pamphlet by the Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton, in 1968.[1] It was later collected in The Atrocity Exhibition. It is written in the style of a scientific paper and catalogues an apocryphal series of bizarre experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan, who was then the Governor of California and candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. History[edit] Ballard himself was inspired by the then-new phenomenon of "media politicians" and in his preface to the 1990 edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, explained: In his commercials Reagan used the smooth, teleprompter-perfect tones of the TV auto-salesman to project a political message that was absolutely the reverse of bland and reassuring.
JG Ballard and Alfred Jarry. Ballardian. RE/Search. RE/Search has published books on various underground topics.
Titles include Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, and Modern Primitives, and the subject matter includes profiles of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and others. RE/Search was the subject of a special issue of the European Journal of American Studies (August 2011, Vol. 30 issue 2), including an examination of "the growth and decline of RE/Search as a commercial enterprise dedicated to documenting and, in effect, marketing selected countercultural trends" that suggests "the Internet has provided a more efficient means of transmitting subcultural memes, rendering RE/Search commercially and otherwise unviable as a promoter and popularizer of subcultural trends and tendencies Select bibliography[edit] RE/Search numbered volumes[edit] RE/Search Publications. Archive Of J G Ballard Saved For The Nation. Tweet Core Facts "Ballardian : adj) 1. of James Graham Ballard (born 1930), the British novelist, or his works (2) resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard's novels and stories, esp dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments"(Collins English Dictionary)
