Editing J. G. Ballard (section)

==Influence==
Ballard is cited as an important forebear of the [[cyberpunk]] movement by [[Bruce Sterling]] in his introduction to the ''[[Mirrorshades]]'' anthology, and by author [[William Gibson]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=9 January 2020|title=For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/books/review/william-gibson-by-the-book-interview.html|access-date=6 June 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=16 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816130950/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/books/review/william-gibson-by-the-book-interview.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Ballard's parody of American politics, the pamphlet "[[Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan]]", which was subsequently included as a chapter in his experimental novel ''[[The Atrocity Exhibition]]'', was photocopied and distributed by pranksters at the [[1980 Republican National Convention]]. In the early 1970s, Bill Butler, a bookseller in [[Brighton]], was prosecuted under [[UK obscenity laws]] for selling the pamphlet.<ref>{{cite web |last=Holliday |first=Mike |title="A DIRTY AND DISEASED MIND": THE UNICORN BOOKSHOP OBSCENITY TRIAL |url=http://www.holli.co.uk/unicorn/text.htm |website=holli.co.uk |publisher=Mike Holliday |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-date=25 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925162259/http://holli.co.uk/unicorn/text.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In his 2002 book ''[[Straw Dogs (book)|Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals]]'', the philosopher [[John Gray (philosopher)|John Gray]] acknowledges Ballard as a major influence on his ideas. The book's publisher quotes Ballard as saying, "''Straw Dogs'' challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Straw Dogs |url=https://granta.com/products/straw-dogs/ |access-date=15 March 2023 |website=Granta |language=en |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326020227/https://granta.com/products/straw-dogs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Gray wrote a short essay, in the [[New Statesman]], about a dinner he had with Ballard in which he stated, "Unlike many others, it wasn't his dystopian vision that gripped my imagination. For me his work was lyrical—an evocation of the beauty that can be gleaned from landscapes of desolation."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gray |first=John |date=6 December 2018 |title=The night that changed my life: John Gray on having dinner with JG Ballard |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/12/john-gray-on-jg-ballard-conversation |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=New Statesman |language=en |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315184940/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/12/john-gray-on-jg-ballard-conversation |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to literary theorist [[Brian McHale]], ''[[The Atrocity Exhibition]]'' is a "[[postmodern]]ist text based on science fiction [[literary topos|topoi]]".<ref>Brian McHale, ''Postmodernist Fiction'' {{ISBN|978-0-415-04513-1}}</ref><ref>Luckhurst, Roger. [https://web.archive.org/web/20020602193625/http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/55/luckhurst55art.htm "Border Policing: Postmodernism and Science Fiction"] ''[[Science Fiction Studies]]'' (November 1991)</ref>

[[Lee Killough]] directly cites Ballard's seminal ''Vermilion Sands'' short stories as the inspiration for her collection ''Aventine'', also a backwater resort for celebrities and eccentrics where bizarre or frivolous novelty technology facilitates the expression of dark intents and drives. [[Terry Dowling]]'s milieu of ''Twilight Beach'' is also influenced by the stories of ''Vermilion Sands'' and other Ballard works.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Terry Dowling |url=http://www.terrydowling.com/default.asp?id=biography |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=terrydowling.com |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629060417/http://terrydowling.com/default.asp?id=biography |url-status=live }}</ref>

In ''[[Simulacra and Simulation]]'', [[Jean Baudrillard]] hailed ''[[Crash (Ballard novel)|Crash]]'' as the "first great novel of the universe of simulation".<ref>{{cite book | title=Simulacra and Simulation | author=Baudrillard, Jean | year=1981 | page=[https://archive.org/details/simulacrasimula000baud/page/119 119] | isbn=978-0-472-06521-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/simulacrasimula000baud | url-access=registration | publisher=Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press }}</ref>

Ballard also had an interest in the relationship between various media. In the early 1970s, he was one of the trustees of the [[Institute for Research in Art and Technology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jgballard.ca/media/1971_april_books_and_bookmen_magazine.html|title=JG Ballard Interviewed by Douglas Reed|website=Jgballard.ca|access-date=21 May 2018|archive-date=17 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617120918/http://www.jgballard.ca/media/1971_april_books_and_bookmen_magazine.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===In popular music===
Ballard has had a notable<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|title=What Pop Music Tells Us About J G Ballard|date=20 April 2009|publisher=BBC News|access-date=3 October 2009|archive-date=23 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423052125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> influence on popular music, where his work has been used as a basis for lyrical imagery, particularly amongst British [[post-punk]] and [[industrial music|industrial]] groups. Examples include albums such as ''[[Metamatic]]'' by [[John Foxx]] and ''[[The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A]]'' by [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]], ''[[The Burning World (album)|The Burning World]]'' by [[Swans (band)|Swans]], various songs by [[Joy Division]] (most famously "Atrocity Exhibition" from ''[[Closer (Joy Division album)|Closer]]'' and "Disorder" from ''[[Unknown Pleasures]]''),<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|title=What pop music tells us about JG Ballard|publisher=BBC|access-date=3 October 2009|archive-date=23 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423052125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> "[[PXR5|High Rise]]" by [[Hawkwind]],<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/> "[[Miss the Girl]]" by [[Siouxsie Sioux]]'s second band [[The Creatures]] (based on ''Crash''), "[[Down in the Park]]" by [[Gary Numan]], "Chrome Injury" by [[The Church (band)|The Church]], "[[Drowned World/Substitute for Love]]" by [[Madonna]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/madonna-new-york-ny-july-25-2001|title=Madonna (New York, NY – July 25, 2001) – Feature|website=Slantmagazine.com|date=26 July 2001|access-date=21 May 2018|archive-date=4 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004183503/https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/madonna-new-york-ny-july-25-2001|url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Warm Leatherette]]" by [[The Normal]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/apr/20/jg-ballard-music-inspired|title=JG Ballard: The music he inspired|last=Myers|first=Ben|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> and ''[[Atrocity Exhibition (album)|Atrocity Exhibition]]'' by [[Danny Brown]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Young |first=Alex |url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/danny-brown-has-named-his-new-album-atrocity-exhibition-after-the-joy-division-song/ |title=Danny Brown has named his new album Atrocity Exhibition after the Joy Division song |work=[[Consequence of Sound]] |date=18 July 2016 |access-date=30 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925193537/http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/danny-brown-has-named-his-new-album-atrocity-exhibition-after-the-joy-division-song/ |archive-date=25 September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/66881-danny-brown-announces-new-album-title-atrocity-exhibition/ |title=Danny Brown Announces New Album Title Atrocity Exhibition |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=18 July 2016 |access-date=30 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926195553/http://pitchfork.com/news/66881-danny-brown-announces-new-album-title-atrocity-exhibition/ |archive-date=26 September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Renshaw |first=David |url=http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/18/danny-brown-new-album-atrocity-exhibition |title=Danny Brown Names New Album Atrocity Exhibition |work=[[The Fader]] |date=18 July 2016 |access-date=30 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921162416/http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/18/danny-brown-new-album-atrocity-exhibition |archive-date=21 September 2016 }}</ref>
Songwriters [[Trevor Horn]] and [[Bruce Woolley]] credit Ballard's story "[[The Sound-Sweep]]" with inspiring [[The Buggles]]' hit "[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec11/articles/classic-tracks-1211.htm |title=The Buggles 'Video Killed The Radio Star' |website=Sound on Sound |access-date=3 July 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180624/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec11/articles/classic-tracks-1211.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Adventures in Modern Recording|Buggles' second album]] included a song entitled "Vermillion Sands".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trevorhorn.com/horniculture/from_the_art_of_plastic_to_the.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613154405/http://www.trevorhorn.com/horniculture/from_the_art_of_plastic_to_the.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 June 2010 |title=Horniculture! • From the Art of Plastic to the Age of Noise |website=Trevorhorn.com }}</ref>
The 1978 post-punk band [[Comsat Angels]] took their name from one of Ballard's short stories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&interviews=919 |title=Путеводитель по миру шоппинга – скидки, распродажи, акции – В мире модных брендов 23 |website=Gothtronic.com |date=21 November 2013 |access-date=3 July 2014 |archive-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019121109/http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&interviews=919 |url-status=dead }}</ref> An early instrumental track by British [[electronic music]] group [[The Human League]] "4JG" bears Ballard's initials as a homage to the author (intended as a response to "[[2HB]]" by [[Roxy Music]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Human League's Phil Oakey is a man of letters – B is for Ballard|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13082121.The_Human_League_s_Phil_Oakey_is_a_man_of_letters/|website=The Herald|location=Glasgow|date=24 November 2011|access-date=19 April 2018|archive-date=20 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420010648/http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13082121.The_Human_League_s_Phil_Oakey_is_a_man_of_letters/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Welsh rock band [[Manic Street Preachers]] include a sample from an interview with Ballard in their song "[[The Holy Bible (album)|Mausoleum]]".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=What pop music tells us about JG Ballard | date=20 April 2009 | access-date=5 May 2010 | archive-date=23 April 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423052125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8008277.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, the Manic Street Preachers song, "A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun", is taken from a line in the J. G. Ballard novel ''Cocaine Nights''. The English band [[Klaxons (English band)|Klaxons]] named their debut album ''[[Myths of the Near Future]]'' after one of Ballard's short story collections.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8008277.stm|title=What pop music tells us about JG Ballard|date=20 April 2009|via=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=12 October 2021|archive-date=20 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620172404/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8008277.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The band Empire of the Sun took their name from Ballard's novel.<ref name="auto"/> The American rock band [[The Sound of Animals Fighting]] took the name of the song [[The Ocean and the Sun|"The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion"]] from ''Crash''. UK-based drum and bass producer Fortitude released an EP in 2016 called "Kline Coma Xero" named after characters in ''The Atrocity Exhibition''. The song "Terminal Beach" by the American band [[Yacht (band)|Yacht]] is a tribute to his short story collection that goes by the same name.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} American indie musician and comic book artist [[Jeffrey Lewis]] mentions Ballard by name in his song "Cult Boyfriend", on the record ''A Turn in The Dream-Songs'' (2011), in reference to Ballard's [[cult following]] as an author.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jeffreylewis.bandcamp.com/album/a-turn-in-the-dream-songs-2011|title=A Turn in the Dream-Songs (2011), by Jeffrey Lewis|website=Jeffrey Lewis|access-date=4 November 2021|archive-date=4 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104190648/https://jeffreylewis.bandcamp.com/album/a-turn-in-the-dream-songs-2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== In the 2024 Met Gala===
The 2024 [[Met Gala]] dress code was "The Garden of Time", inspired by Ballard's 1962 short story "The Garden of Time".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/met-gala-dress-code-2024|title=And the 2024 Met Gala Dress Code Is…|date=15 February 2024|website=Vogue|access-date=15 February 2024|archive-date=15 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215225811/https://www.vogue.com/article/met-gala-dress-code-2024|url-status=live}}</ref>