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Hence Ballard's imagined world is reduced to the dimensions of that island created by intertwined expressways on which individuals in their cellular commodities hurtle to their destruction or that apartment complex in which the wealthy and professional classes degenerate into anarchic tribal warfare among themselves. And hence Ballard accurately, indeed magnificently, projects the doomed social structure in which he exists. What could Ballard create if he were able to envision the end of capitalism as not the end, but the beginning, of a human world?

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Hence Ballard's imagined world is reduced to the dimensions of that island created by intertwined expressways on which individuals in their cellular commodities hurtle to their destruction or that apartment complex in which the wealthy and professional classes degenerate into anarchic tribal warfare among themselves. And hence Ballard accurately, indeed magnificently, projects the doomed social structure in which he exists. What could Ballard create if he were able to envision the end of capitalism as not the end, but the beginning, of a human world?
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Elisabet Roselló (lisrosello@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 21:32:49 JST Elisabet Roselló
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...una referencia que el mismo Jameson menciona, que es el artículo "What are we to make of J.G. Ballard’s Apocalypse?" de H. B. Franklin (1979) https://www.jgballard.ca/criticism/ballard_apocalypse_1979.html
En dicho texto se discute cómo Ballard yuxtapone apocalipsis con el fin del capitalismo. O incluso "lo confunde".

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