The Atrocity Exhibition by Jonathan Weiss.
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The Atrocity Exhibition (2000)
Jonathan Weiss
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The Atrocity Exhibition | Jonathan Weiss | 1998
Anna Juvander, Victor Slezak, et al.
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Curiously, many prominent assassins have possessed distinct literary styles, as if they had unconsciously rehearsed and rationalised their crimes on the verbal level long before committing them.
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Weapons ranges have a special magic, all that destructive technology concentrated on the production of nothing, the closest we can get to certain obsessional states of mind. Even more strange are the bunkers of the Nazi Atlantic Wall, most of which are still standing, and are far larger than one expects. Space-age cathedrals, they threaten the surrounding landscape like lines of Teutonic knights, and are examples of a cryptic architecture where form no longer reveals function. They seem to contain the codes of some mysterious mental process. At Utah Beach, the most deserted stretch of the Normandy coast, they stare out over the washed sand, older than the planet. On visits with my agent and his wife, I used to photograph them compulsively.
- J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
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Yeah man. It shows.
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The Atrocity Exhibition | Jonathan Weiss | 1998
Robert Morgan, Caroline McGee, and The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even by Marcel Duchamp
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Sometimes there is even such a thing as being too drippy 👔🤷♀️
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The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G Ballard
schizophrenic literature that’s actually readable !
JG Ballard is one of the most prophetic modern writers. His fiction so deeply in twined with his own fascinations and observations of the world around him. Everything resonant in contemporary life, where the body becomes inseparable from the landscape of war, fame, and automobile crashes. I would love to see a 21st century atrocity exhibition: it would be wildly desexualised.
I too cannot talk about the things I write about without making it personal. Express your obsessions! Or writing becomes flaccid
The language deployed is intensely scientific but in doing so renders this way of seeing to be deeply pornographic; exposing the otherwise unknowable functional textures of life and death.
In this edition of the book Ballard gives footnotes thatre just as illuminating as the main body of text.
Major influence <3
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inspired by “you: coma: marilyn monroe” by jg ballard
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