...Joel Evans Abstract The article identifies a shift in J. G. Ballard's work from a preoccupation with the individual to a preoccupation with the collective. It reads Ballard's late fiction as being part of a wider turn in the culture of Western, neoliberal states toward a reignition of a spirit...

...Matthew Hart Abstract This essay considers a late novel sequence by the British speculative fiction writer J. G. Ballard (1930–2009). Although Ballard is often celebrated as a great iconoclast, there is arguably no postwar novelist with a more recognizable style. The essay analyzes Cocaine Nights...

... Evans's essay “The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective” is “meaningless action, the more violent the better” ( Ballard 249 ). But is meaningless action the action of a super-protagonist or an anagonist? For Evans, the meaningless action that takes place in each of J. G. Ballard's last four novels...

... as extraterritorial: J. G. Ballard's and Kazuo Ishiguro's novels set in the Shanghai International Settlement are a major focus, as is China Miéville's The City and the City , with its science fictional double-space. But many do not. The strength of Hart's analysis is his capacity to show how the extraterritorial...

... as well as its points of emphasis some bias in favor of the in every sense domestic novel. The silence on British-authored war novels with non-British settings—books like J. G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip and J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, set in collapsing Far East outposts of empire...

... is always imbricated in a changing spatial, political, and economic order—both testing the cultural logic and instantiating it. Scholars outside of modernist studies will find value in this book as well since Duffy dedicates as much ink to J. G. Ballard’s Crash (1973) or Jameson’s Postmodernism...

... biosphere or change its rules. Many argued for the destruction of the biosphere, as being the lesser of two evils” (124). Robinson is riffing on Jameson (writing about J. G. Ballard and Ursula K. Le Guin): “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end...

... not in charge. Matthew Hart's identification of the “extraordinary” event that cracks open the “enclave” form of J. G. Ballard's “late” novels is an obvious case in point. Jeanne-Marie Jackson's claim that the novels now coming out of Zimbabwe offer an “agonistic pluralism” strikes me as the counterpart...

... Black revolution and sensory perception (184). A more recent trend in Blake scholarship—spurred in part by Jerome McGann's 2017 corrected edition of Blake (the first time the book has been reprinted since Floyd J. Miller's 1970 Beacon Press edition)—has reinvigorated study of the novel. Scholars...

... space. But I was always surprised that I couldn't publish Men in Space and Remainder when I wrote them, because they seemed to me extremely literary novels in the sense that they're clearly plugging into a kind of literary gene pool. Remainder is so dependent on [Samuel] Beckett, [J. G.] Ballard...

... administrative zeal as the collars. Commenting on the speculative fiction of J. G. Ballard, Fredric Jameson notes that heat often suggests the “dissolution of the body into the outside world,” and the tropics especially stand for the “total environment . . . into which the European dissolves,” spatializing...