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I read "Crash"[1] by J.G. Ballard because I was forced to read a review of it in Jean Baudrillard's "Simulation and Simulacra"[2]. The number one take away? Fr
by Der_Einzige 3y ago
I read "Crash"[1] by J.G. Ballard because I was forced to read a review of it in Jean Baudrillard's "Simulation and Simulacra"[2].
The number one take away? French post-modernist thinkers and authors are extremely sexually deranged[3][4]. Perfect for Cronenberg
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Ballard_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Ballard_novel)
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petitions_against_age_of_consent_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petitions_against_age_o...
[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex
- ghaff 3y agoBallard wrote quite a variety of works from fairly weird, experimental stuff through books in the basically English world destroyed vein (of which Wyndham was probably the best practitioner).
- dang 3y agoEvery disaffected teenager should read the Chrysalids. It captures perfectly the feeling that one is a mutant in a deranged adult society, by making it literal.