Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.
J.G. Ballard
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
car technology speed future invisible
We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
future
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again.. The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
future science-fiction j-g-ballard
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
imagination immortality
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.
living self-sufficiency acquaintances j-g-ballard
.. Reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.
reality rationality reason
These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.
technology science-fiction
Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.
sex
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.
violence sex exploration
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.
time
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.
leisure work
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
fame celebrity
dreaming
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
novels tolstoy
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