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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/lisrosello/statuses/114138611272072607">Elisabet Roselló (lisrosello@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 21:32:49 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello" title="lisrosello@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/287316-48-20241016091624.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Elisabet Roselló" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Elisabet Roselló</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello/114138571320551727" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>...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) <a href="https://www.jgballard.ca/criticism/ballard_apocalypse_1979.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.jgballard.ca/criticism/ballard_apocalypse_1979.html</a></p><p>En dicho texto se discute cómo Ballard yuxtapone apocalipsis con el fin del capitalismo. O incluso "lo confunde".</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4844152#notice-9487018">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-04T21:32:49+09:00" title="Friday, 04-Apr-2025 21:32:49 JST">about 18 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello/114138611272072607" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lisrosello/114138611272072607">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4413885">This brings us back to the automobile, the central symbol of Ballard's nightmare. Ballard's choice of the automobile as emblem and synecdoche for the apocalypse is splendid. In the U.S., "25 cents out of every dollar spent at retail is connected with the auto... The automobile annually consumes... 64.2 percent of the Nation's rubber production, 21 percent of all its steel, 54.7 percent of the lead, 40 percent of the malleable iron, 36.5 percent of the zinc.”19 As Dutch economist Andre van Dam notes: "Each year automobiles kill 180,000 people worldwide, permanently maim 480,000, and injure 8,000,000. Car accidents account for 3% of the gross national product in the industrial nations, a huge sum that should be subtracted from the GNP rather than added to it."20 And in the words of "American Ground Transport," a report submitted to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly: "We are witnessing today the collapse of a society based on the automobile."21 But Ballard's failure to understand the source of this collapse, or rather his failure to carry forward the understanding he reached in "The Subliminal Man," leaves him mistaking the end of capitalism for the end of the world.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/138/607/553/125/959/original/f6fce148631838fe.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/138/607/553/125/959/original/f6fce148631838fe.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4413886">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?</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/138/610/306/963/530/original/0a0ca0b4e37ade88.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/138/610/306/963/530/original/0a0ca0b4e37ade88.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4413887">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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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