http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/04/see-you-on-the-highway-ballard.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/04/see-you-on-the-highway-ballard.html/comment-page-1#comment-5569 Trevor Baudach Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:41:48 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2589#comment-5569 Who but James Ballard would see the light from the Hiroshima bomb and think it was someone's soul rising into Heaven? Who but James Ballard would see the light from the Hiroshima bomb and think it was someone’s soul rising into Heaven?

]]> http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/04/see-you-on-the-highway-ballard.html/comment-page-1#comment-5557 Butch Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:33:16 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2589#comment-5557 When he died , what came to mind immediately was ,"Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan". I remember how shocked I was as a teenager growing up on Long Island hearing that title from one of my fellow avant garde friends. That title alone was a rallying cry to shock and disturb those in the mainstream.I did immensely enjoy Ballard's original novel and Cronenberg's film treatment of the controversial,Crash. Not that it got me having romantic interludes in cars only to culminate in some kind of calamity resulting in injury! The idea of technology and sexuality inherent in the story is very fascinating. I have been involved in car crashes, one as recently as in February of this year and can only say that it is not that fun to collide with another car to to the least. It can be very terrifying, if anything. It is one thing to make love/and or get funky in a car while stationary(which is a primal ritual that most people go through) but another to derive sexual thrills from colliding into another vechicle while doing it. In essence, Ballard's view of sexuality and techonology is very thought provoking because of the subject matter's disturbing nature. When he died , what came to mind immediately was ,”Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan”. I remember how shocked I was as a teenager growing up on Long Island hearing that title from one of my fellow avant garde friends. That title alone was a rallying cry to shock and disturb those in the mainstream.I did immensely enjoy Ballard’s original novel and Cronenberg’s film treatment of the controversial,Crash. Not that it got me having romantic interludes in cars only to culminate in some kind of calamity resulting in injury! The idea of technology and sexuality inherent in the story is very fascinating. I have been involved in car crashes, one as recently as in February of this year and can only say that it is not that fun to collide with another car to to the least. It can be very terrifying, if anything. It is one thing to make love/and or get funky in a car while stationary(which is a primal ritual that most people go through) but another to derive sexual thrills from colliding into another vechicle while doing it. In essence, Ballard’s view of sexuality and techonology is very thought provoking because of the subject matter’s disturbing nature.

]]> http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/04/see-you-on-the-highway-ballard.html/comment-page-1#comment-5556 feministstripper Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:35:44 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2589#comment-5556 R.I.P. one of the most honest and subversive literary greats of this era... R.I.P. one of the most honest and subversive literary greats of this era…

]]> http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2009/04/see-you-on-the-highway-ballard.html/comment-page-1#comment-5554 k0mmissar Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:45:00 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2589#comment-5554 stunning author. the loss of a great mind is always so dour... stunning author. the loss of a great mind is always so dour…

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