We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
—J. G. Ballard, Introduction to Crash, 1973

Posted on July 9, 2002 at 2:54 PM

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
—J. G. Ballard, Fictions of Every Kind

Posted on August 15, 2001 at 7:52 AM

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
—J. G. Ballard, Crash

Posted on January 22, 2002 at 8:53 AM

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