Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: J. G. Ballard, Ferris Wheel, Great News
15 Mar 2018
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Experience of reading high rise can be intense its the intensity of that experience produced by tensions between violence and cold indifferences that characterizes the tone that brings forth something meaningful. No matter how bizarre the situation may be way he writes ensures were always distanced from whatever unfolding on the page. Even when most shocking events take place don"t feel consequence but confusion or numbness. Nature of that distancing ensures we don"t connect to the act represented. As a write ballard fascinated with distortion of human relationships bc he writes about human relationships and emotions are distorted by technologies used to mediate and express them. As an author his trade is exploration of inner space; interior of the subject and how that space is distorted and reflected by technologies such that they make a concrete instance to whatever going on. These highly potent visual codes can be seen repeated in every aspect of the 20th century landscape.
