http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/on-the-barricades-with-the-bourgeoisie/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 23 May 2013 17:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/on-the-barricades-with-the-bourgeoisie/comment-page-1/#comment-5445 Its J G Ballards World We Just Live In It | Fantastical Andrew Fox Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:13:48 +0000 http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/?p=10214#comment-5445 [...] Coincidence or karma? Ballard’s penultimate novel, Millennium People, published in the U.K. in 2003, was finally released in a U.S. edition just last month. It features middle class professionals in suburban London instigating terrorism and revolution in an effort to shock a sense of meaning back into their lives. Several reviews appeared in major U.S. newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Seattle Times, just a day or two before the London riots broke out. I’m sure the reviewers whacked their foreheads with their palms and wished their deadlines had been just a couple of days later so that they could have infused their articles with the weightiness of current world events. Here’s Ballard himself talking about what he was up to with Millennium People, plus a lengthy, insightful, but unfortunately undated review from Open Letters Monthly called, presciently, “On the Barricades with the Bourgeoisie.” [...]

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