J. G. Ballard Quote

Everywhere — all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.


Interview (30 October 1982) in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984).


Everywhere — all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a...

Everywhere — all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a...

Everywhere — all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a...

Everywhere — all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a...