“The present is being dismal, so instead of keeping a temporality where the present and the past influence the future, we want to switch things around and have the future influence the present.”
Tag: Essays
Trouble in Utopia
It’s hard to imagine a world without cars.
Infinite possibilities of the sky: expanding the Ballardian aesthetic
Donald Judd’s large concrete sculptures take on the imperial majesty of grey highways, desert landing strips or the causeways of a NASA launch facility…
You’ve Gotta Be Fucking Kidding
One of the most common dreams enacted in popular culture is that of the defiant moment of catharsis.
Bittersweet
On the wall next to the bed – right about where a 5-year-old’s gaze would meet the plaster – a small section had been patiently worked away.
Uncanny Pop: The Iconography of Philjames
‘what tha?’
The Engine of Experience: Contemporary Art and SF
Science fiction and modern art were born together in the Romantic imagination of the early 19th century.
Crash, and the Aesthetics of Disappearance
In April 1970, the exhibition Crashed Cars opened at the New Arts Lab in Camden Town, London. On display were three smashed up cars: a Pontiac, an Austin Cambridge A60 and a Mini.
Cosmic Sentinels and Spiral Jetties: J.G. Ballard, Robert Smithson & Tacita Dean
Beneath the Great Salt Lake was the centre of an ancient universe…
Super 8 Deluxe
I remember colours; the orange cast of Kodachrome 40, Ektachrome 180 blue, and the Japanese-green of Fujichrome.
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