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"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.
"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash
JAMES SPADER as James Ballard
CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg
#perfect casting. his big hypnotic unfocused startling eyes#his hunger#the scariest man I have ever seen#crash#crash 1996#james spader#*#david cronenberg#jg ballard
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idk what i’m doing gang please just take this
#come get yall juice#gay#crash 1996#david cronenberg#jg ballard#wtf was seagrave on in the book like why was he like That.
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Favorite Books I Read in 2023
Not including rereads and in no particular order, here are the books I loved the most this year.
Titles & Authors, from top left to bottom:
Fluids by May Leitz
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Valencia by Michelle Tea
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Summer by Edith Wharton
"The Echo & the Nemesis", "Life is No Abyss", "The Interior Castle", "Bad Characters", and "In the Zoo" by Jean Stafford
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Crash by J.G. Ballard
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde
Erasure by Percival Everett
Persuasion by Jane Austen
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Ghosts of my Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, & Lost Futures by Mark Fisher
Girl Flesh by May Leitz
Here's to a new year, full of great reading!
#dark academia#light academia#literature#books#reading#2023#may leitz#jeanette winterson#mark fisher#jane austen#john fowles#zadie smith#juan rulfo#maryse conde#kazuo ishiguro#imogen binnie#michelle tea#patrick suskind#jg ballard#percival everett#don delillo#gwendolyn brooks#mary gaitskill#jean stafford#edith wharton#vladimir nabokov#paul bowles
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Mike Halliwell’s montages illustrate J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition
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A kind of banalisation of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
J. G. Ballard
#ballard#jg ballard#quote#author#literature#writer#celebrity culture#fame#commodification#celebrity#society
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Re/search - Complete Volumes of Zines and Extra Texts : V. Vale : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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“For Vaughan, events have no meaning and do not even seem to be phenomenologically present until they are captured and mediated by some means of mechanical reproduction. The image is at the hands of the text's characters thus the subject of both fetishisation and exorbitation: nothing is more real than the image, and without the image there is no longer any real.”
Andrzej Gasiorek on J.G. Ballard and Crash.
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i was in your wet dream driving in my car (crash 1996)
#crash#crash 1996#david cronenberg#james spader#james ballard#jg ballard#deborah kara unger#elias koteas#holly hunter#rosanna arquette#*#video#this only took me a couple hours probably bc I’ve been wanting to make it for MONTHS#umm I think it’s fun. I love this song it’s so them!#let me know what you think :)
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Crash! (1971)
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Covers for a hypothetical Crash graphic novel 💥 I made back in 2022
#my art#2022 art#taken from actual damage in car crashes and ballard when he was young#top 5 best things i've ever done tbh#original work#crash#jg ballard crash#jg ballard#symphorophilia#illustration#artists on tumblr#bodyhorror#soft gore#art
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“For several minutes I gazed at this wrecked car, reassembling its identity. Terrifying events rolled through my mind on its flattened wheels. What most surprised me was the extent of the damage. During the accident the hood had climbed over the engine compartment, hiding from me the real extent of the collision. Both front wheels and the engine had been driven back into the driver’s section, bowing the floor. Blood still marked the bonnet, streamers of black lace running towards the windshield wiper gutters. Minute flecks were spattered across the seat and steering wheel. I thought of the dead man lying on the hood of the car. The blood rolling across the bruised cellulose was a more potent fluid than the semen cooling in his testicles.”
- Crash, J.G. Ballard
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Crash, J.G. Ballard
#crash#jg ballard#have been searching all over this stupid website for this quote and couldn’t find it#this paragraph has done a lot of heavy lifting for me getting over my emetophobia tbh#something about it is so….romantic? endearing?#ballard is very good and describing the most heinous things so beautifully#if you are a sicko like me that is
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