Extreme Metaphors

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• auxbuss · Jun 27, 2022 · Recommends

  …Spectacle (1967) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_th... And Johnny Rotten: “Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?” J.G, Ballard talked about it a lot. See his interviews in Extreme Metaphors, rather than his novels. “I feel that the 1960s represent a marked turning point. For the first time, with the end of the Cold War, I suppose, for the first time the outside world, so-called reality,…

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• davidgerard · Sep 27, 2023 · Recommends

  I also highly recommend Extreme Metaphors. It's a collection of interviews with Ballard where he tells you precisely what his writing is about.

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• r721 · Feb 9, 2024 · Mentions

  There's also this: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Metaphors-J-G-Ballard-ebook/d... ("A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.") I didn't read it though, just know about its existence from following Simon…

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• kepano · May 7, 2024 · Mentions

  In searching for the primary sources for the quotes in this article I found that "Extreme Metaphors" (ISBN 978-0-00-745485-3) seems to be the best collection of J. G. Ballard interviews. Quite a few are collected here: https://www.jgballard.ca/media/interviews.html One of the interviews referenced…

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