Ballardian

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1. Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity.

   Like some Ballardian nightmare from 1986 / Let the satellite navigation system guide us to the Styx

   2011, “Roof Of Your Car”, in Computers and Blues, performed by The Streets

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   Yet the sense of evil—which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture—is nowhere present in the Ballardian text.

   1993, Nicholas Ruddick, Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction, Praeger Pub Text

   The purest Ballardian set, poised chronologically between High-Rise and Millennium People, was an estate on the edge of the recently created Barrier Park (architectural planting in the deep trenches of an old dock).

   2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

   However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space.

   2013, Paul Morley, The North: (And Almost Everything In It), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

   The very Ballardian violence comes from rogue Salafist jihadists and their far-right counterparts, the Nativists (imagine the EDL with brains); […]

   2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN