Comments on: JG Ballard and David Cronenberg interviewed by Mark Dery http://boingboing.net/2009/02/24/jg-ballard-interview-1.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 17:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: gretagretchen http://boingboing.net/2009/02/24/jg-ballard-interview-1.html#comment-421951 gretagretchen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-421951 The art direction looks like subpar Raygun to me. The art direction looks like subpar Raygun to me.

]]> By: M. Dery http://boingboing.net/2009/02/24/jg-ballard-interview-1.html#comment-421505 M. Dery Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-421505 "What was Rage?" From my blog post: "...the almost indescribable Rage, a mind-clenching blend of Adbusters-style anti-consumerist polemics; X-rated cartoons of eye-gouging awfulness (both in humor and execution), calculated to set the functionally illiterate aroar; political journalism; and, incalculably, softcore porn---accompanied, in some ill-conceived attempt at "culture jamming," by captions that sneered at the silicone-injected models in the photos and snarked at the reader for oggling them (a strategy sure to increase the magazine's market share). Did I mention that the magazine's design was so groaningly amateurish it would have given Tibor Kalman an irritable bowel? Of course Rage was published by Larry Flynt." “What was Rage?”

From my blog post:

“…the almost indescribable Rage, a mind-clenching blend of Adbusters-style anti-consumerist polemics; X-rated cartoons of eye-gouging awfulness (both in humor and execution), calculated to set the functionally illiterate aroar; political journalism; and, incalculably, softcore porn—accompanied, in some ill-conceived attempt at “culture jamming,” by captions that sneered at the silicone-injected models in the photos and snarked at the reader for oggling them (a strategy sure to increase the magazine’s market share). Did I mention that the magazine’s design was so groaningly amateurish it would have given Tibor Kalman an irritable bowel?

Of course Rage was published by Larry Flynt.”

]]> By: teufelsdroch http://boingboing.net/2009/02/24/jg-ballard-interview-1.html#comment-421341 teufelsdroch Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-421341 Did no one else celebrate when they found these interviews? Hooray! What was Rage? By this issue--Cronenberg, Ballard, original fiction, soft S&M cover--it looks like something I'd subscribe to. Did no one else celebrate when they found these interviews? Hooray!

What was Rage? By this issue–Cronenberg, Ballard, original fiction, soft S&M cover–it looks like something I’d subscribe to.

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