[LAF] 10/11 The Atrocity Organization: JG Ballard & the Technologies of Psychopathology

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

Perhaps of interest to some of you...


The Atrocity Organization: JG Ballard & the Technologies of  
Psychopathology
:: Tuesday November 10th :: 5PM
:: Foundry, London :: 86 Great Eastern Street ::
:: http://www.foundry.tv ::

As a novelist and fiction SF writer, JG Ballard developed one of the  
most dynamic (and disturbing) exploration of collective  
psychopathology, excesses of (post)-modern life, and the collapsing of  
the Western imaginary. From the fetish of the car crash to obscene  
hidden violence of the business park, internment camps to masochist  
fantasies directed through the mediated form of Ronald Reagan’s body,  
Ballard’s work ventures into territories that are disconcerting to  
explore, but from which one can learn a great deal. Rather than  
assuming that disorder and excess is a condition that we must respond  
to, what if it is the desire to impose order upon an inherently  
ungovernable and excessive condition that is truly psychopathological?

Participants in this event include Debra Shaw, Tomasz Vine, Ann  
Rippin, and Erika Biddle.

Organized by Stevphen Shukaitis & Peter Fleming.
Sponsored by Minor Compositions (http://www.minorcompositions.info)  
and the
SCOS Events Funds (http://www.scos.org)


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Stevphen Shukaitis
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