J.G. Ballard’s Politics: Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance
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2017
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De Gruyter
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English
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Capitalism, Politics, Ballard
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Cord, Florian. J.G. Ballard’s Politics: Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
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This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. His oeuvre is read as a continuous meditation on late capitalism, at the heart of which lie questions of power and resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts from critical theory, the study argues that Ballard's texts respond to the exhaustion of received forms of political struggle by developing a new, pataphysical discourse of resistance.