LEADER 03725nam 2200589 450 001 9910813694403321 005 20230810001937.0 010 $a3-11-048830-2 010 $a3-11-049071-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110490718 035 $a(CKB)3710000001041802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4810113 035 $a(DE-B1597)468842 035 $a(OCoLC)973836603 035 $a(OCoLC)979906658 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110490718 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4810113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11349308 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL994414 035 $a(OCoLC)974591217 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001041802 100 $a20170301h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJ. G. Ballard's politics $elate capitalism, power, and the pataphysics of resistance /$fFlorian Cord 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) 225 1 $aBuchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series,$x0340-5435 ;$vVolume 54 311 $a3-11-048789-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. Introduction: Catastrophic Strategies -- $t2. Celebration of Wounds: Excess, the Body, and Symbolic Exchange in Crash -- $t3. Becoming-Grass: De- and Reterritorialization in Concrete Island -- $t4. Escaping the Subject: The Ballardian Theme of Abdication -- $t5. The Psychopath as Saint: Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes and the Politics of Transgression after the End of History -- $t6. In Pursuit of the 21st Century: The Revolutionary Imagination and the Spectacle of Terrorism in Millennium People -- $t7. Conclusion: New Weapons -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard's oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the postmodern, examining it specifically as an expression of late capitalism. The book shows that at the heart of this meditation lies the question of resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts and ideas taken from the field of critical theory, it argues that in the face of a world marked by an unprecedented expansion of capital, in which modernity's grand narratives have been invalidated and in which received forms of political struggle have lost their effectiveness, Ballard's fiction commits itself to a deliberately irrational and extreme, pataphysical thought in order to develop a new discourse of resistance. Against past readings that have construed Ballard's writing as non-political, decadent, or quietist, the study thus reveals Ballard as a thoroughly political author, committed to a subversive politics. In this way, the book also constitutes a timely intervention in the ongoing discussion concerning the nature and state of the political. 410 0$aBuchreihe der Anglia ;$vVolume 54. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 610 $aJ.G. Ballard. 610 $aLate Captalism. 610 $aPower. 610 $aResistance. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 676 $a823.914 700 $aCord$b Florian$01673844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813694403321 996 $aJ. G. Ballard's politics$94038222 997 $aUNINA