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This work presents a Dabrowskian reading of J.G Ballard's autobiographical fiction.

J.G. Ballard --- Kazimierz Dabrowski --- theory of positive disintegration --- death of affect --- Arts & sciences humaines > Littérature

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»Resonant Alterities« bridges the gap between sound studies and literary criticism. A queer ghost story by Vernon Lee, an occultist novel of psychic adventure by Algernon Blackwood, a dystopian science fiction tale by J.G. Ballard and a post-traumatic short novel by Don DeLillo are its primary objects of analysis. Each is explored within the context of its contemporary cultural debates on sound. Meanwhile, all four theory-enriched readings focus on intersecting and desire-laden processes of meaning making, knowledge production and subject formation. Focal points are aurally/audio-visually structured phenomena expressive of both collective and individual anxieties. Besprochen in: The Chronicle, 01.05.2015

Literature; Culture; Theory; Sound; Perception; Vernon Lee; Algernon Blackwood; J.G. Ballard; Don DeLillo; British Studies; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies --- Algernon Blackwood. --- American Studies. --- British Studies. --- Culture. --- Don DeLillo. --- General Literature Studies. --- J.G. Ballard. --- Literary Studies. --- Perception. --- Sound. --- Theory. --- Vernon Lee.

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This 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.

J.G. Ballard. --- Late Captalism. --- Macht. --- Power. --- Resistance. --- Spätkapitalismus. --- Widerstand. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Ballard, J. G., --- Ballard, J. G. --- Ballard, James Graham --- Politics and literature