6. December 2005
Sex & Paranoia
The marriage of reason and nigtmare that has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambigious world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials co-exists in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century – sex and paranoia. [...]
J.G. Ballard, Introduction to Crash, 1995
One Response to “Sex & Paranoia”
What i’ve said all along. I mean it could all be just an image of the real…a reflection that has changed meaning or lost it completely. Postmodernism at its best. Jean Baudrillard and the Situationist. The loss of meaning and the end of history.
(sorry about not providing a real email – there is a bit too much information gathering going on in this wired world of ours)
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