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While the fiction of J.G. Ballard has been primarily explored through postmodern criticism, his narratives and settings predict major issues concerning the contemporary discourse of posthumanism. His texts explore the escalating economic, social, and ecological crises converging within the material conditions of human urbanization and late capitalism. Nearly all of Ballard’s novels are as much about locations undergoing a crisis as they are about individuals or communities coming to embrace some extended period of human hysteria. His characters in The Drought, Concrete Island, and Super- Cannes, each progress through ecologically and socially alienating surroundings which invigorate them to act against classical humanism’s hegemonic and anthropocentric tendencies. By applying Henri Lefebvre’s spatial concept of “abstract space” to Ballard’s range of urban settings, this thesis investigates how Ballard’s early, middle, and late, novels continually put materiality, humanism, and technological landscapes, through different ecological and geopolitical crises in order to deconstruct a number of cultural and ideological concerns posthumanist studies seek to address.

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In response to theoretical inquiries into the decline in the production of utopian literature, this dissertation argues that the decline or, rather, the "postmodern" loss of faith in utopian literature and utopian thinking results from the neo-liberal globalization of capitalism and its material and discursive/ideological appropriation of global space. To demonstrate this thesis, the dissertation examines the invariably dystopic imaginative geographies in the fiction of J. G. Ballard. By analyzing the historical-geographical discursive context of Ballard's imaginative geographies, the dissertation attempts to locate and recover those absent spaces that might have served as probable sites of Utopia. / The first part of this dissertation examines Ballard's "Concentration City," "Report on an Unidentified Space Station," "The Enormous Space," "The Overloaded Man," and the novel High-Rise. This section concludes generally that the imaginative geographies inscribed within those texts are closed, insular, homogeneous, pathological and exclusionary social spaces that are antithetical to a Postmodern Utopia whose socio-cultural inclusiveness would be predicated upon a "politics of difference." / The second half of the dissertation examines Ballard's later works, such as Rushing to Paradise (1994), Cocaine Nights (1996), and Super-Cannes (2001). By discursively analyzing the similar yet more ideologically transparent imaginative geographies in these recent works, the dissertation concludes that it is not exclusively the material and ideological conquest of social space by global capital that poses the greatest threat to Ballard's "utopian" socio-spatial imaginary. Rather, it is also the postcolonial threat of the dislocations and mass immigrations of the Indigenous Other precipitated by globalization. It is the emergence of the de-territorialized Other that impels Ballard's imaginative geographies to recoil inwardly into "Privatopias," "white enclaves" and "imperial ghettos" demarcated by neocolonial pathological geographies of exclusion.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1993. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-275). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Cette étude porte sur les 37 Livres d’airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard entre 1658 et 1694, collection musicale qui comporte 1220 airs en grande partie anonymes, écrits principalement à deux voix. Nous proposons de retracer son histoire et d’en faire l’analyse musicologique. (1) Notre première partie est centrée sur la question de la notation des airs. Il s’agit de comprendre la façon dont les Ballard ont conçu et construit leurs recueils, depuis la récolte des airs jusqu’aux choix de présentation. Nous nous penchons ensuite sur la technique éditoriale afin de mieux percevoir quels types de contraintes les éditeurs pouvaient rencontrer lors de la notation des airs. Enfin, une étude comparative avec d’autres sources permettra de mieux comprendre les spécificités de la collection. (2) En tant que corpus homogène, dont la parution se fait de manière régulière, les Livres d’airs… témoignent de la façon dont la musique était pensée à leur époque. L’emploi des signes de mesure évolue, de même que la notation des armures. En 37 ans, le nombre de tonalités employées est doublé. À la lumière des écrits sur la musique qui lui sont contemporains, nous chercherons à comprendre les raisons des diverses mutations, et de mieux comprendre ce langage musical en mouvement. (3) Enfin, notre troisième partie est consacrée à l’acte de composition des airs via deux axes principaux : l’analyse formelle d’une part, l’analyse des genres musicaux ainsi que leurs différences stylistiques d’autre part. Ces deux lignes directrices nous permettront d’aborder d’autres thématiques liées à l’écriture des airs et au lien entre le texte et la musique. En pénétrant certains aspects de la fabrique des airs, aspects restés méconnus étant donné le « creux » théorique à ce niveau au xviie siècle, nous espérons leur redonner, aujourd’hui, une identité musicale. / This study is on the 37 Livres d’airs de different auteurs, published by Ballard between 1658 and 1694. It is a music collection composed of 1,220 airs – most of them are anonymous – that were mainly written for two voices. We propose to trace the history of it and to make a musicological analysis. (1) Our first part focuses on the notation issue, trying to understand the way the printer Ballard built this collection, from the choice of the airs to the choices of presentation. Then we will talk about the editorial technique, in order to better understand the kind of constraints the editors could have while noting the airs. Finally, a comparative study with other sources will help better understand the characteristics of this collection. (2) As a homogeneous corpus, the Livres d’airs… – which were regularly published – show the way music was seen at that time. The use of bar signs was changing, as well as the notation of the key signature. Within 37 years, the number of tonalities had doubled. In light of different documents about music that were published at the same period, we will try to understand the reasons of these changes as well as this moving musical language. (3) Finally, this third part is dedicated to the composing of the airs, via two main lines : a formal analysis on one hand, an analysis of the musical genre on the other hand. These two guidelines will enable us to talk about other themes, related to the fact of writing airs and to the link between text and music. By analyzing some aspects of the air composing – that remained unrecognized given the lack of any theory about it during the XVIIth century – we hope we will be able to give them a musical identity.

Ce travail vise à étudier, de manière critique et détaillée, la revue littéraire Les Cahiers du Sud, dirigée par Jean Ballard, durant la période de l’entre-deux-guerres (1925-1939). Il s’agit d’un travail d’histoire littéraire qui s’appuie sur les archives conservées à la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille, l'Alcazar. L’étude commence au moment où Fortunio prend pour nouveau titre Les Cahiers du Sud et se dote de nouvelles ambitions, et se clôt avec l’interruption de quelques mois liée à la déclaration de guerre. La fin des années vingt marque le début d’un succès que les années trente viennent confirmer et accentuer, avec la parution de numéros qui font date. Le but de ce travail est donc de comprendre comment cette revue a pu acquérir au fil des numéros une telle reconnaissance, accumuler un tel « capital symbolique », malgré sa localisation provinciale, dans une France plus que jamais centralisée. Alors que l’on assiste à l’éclosion de nombreuses revues trop souvent éphémères, comment les Cahiers parviennent-ils à percer et à perdurer ? C’est ce qui les rend si atypiques, seule revue à s’être maintenue longtemps sans être pour autant parisienne.Il s’agit donc d’exploiter les ressources patrimoniales à disposition afin d’éclairer une entreprise revuiste dynamique originale et de la replacer dans le contexte plus général des revues de l’entre-deux-guerres pour en définir les particularités et en dégager une ligne directrice, qui ne correspond pas exactement à la ligne revendiquée. / Our thesis focuses on a detailed and critical study of the literary review Les Cahiers du Sud, edited by Jean Ballard, during the inter-war period (1925-1939). This work of literary history uses the archives from the Alcazar, Marseilles’s public library promoting regional heritage. Our study starts when Fortunio was renamed Les Cahiers du Sud and defined new ambitions, and it ends on the interruption of several months that occurred because of the declaration of war. With the late 1920s came success, which became even bigger and more apparent during the 1930s with landmark issues being published.Our goal is therefore to understand how this review was able to gain such acclaim with time and gather such a “symbolic capital”, while being located outside of Paris, knowing how centralized the French state was. With numerous reviews – all too often short-lived – published also during this period, how did Les Cahiers du Sud manage to break through and last? This is what makes them so atypical – the only non-Parisian review that managed to exist for an extended period of time.Using the heritage resources available, this study casts a light on an energetic and original review and puts it in the more general context of reviews during the inter-war years, in order to define its specificities and reveal a guideline, which turns out to be somewhat different from the one they claimed to have adopted.

Idén till mitt examensarbete började växa fram förra året när jag studerade ett utbytesår i den amerikanska västkuststaden Seattle. Staden växer och förtätas just nu i en rask takt och de flesta nya byggnader uppförs i en komplex kontext av befintliga byggnader och relationer. De flesta tilläggen skapar idag stora kontraster i stadsbilden. Syftet med mitt examensarbete har varit att utforska hur man för en befintlig byggnad från dåtid till nutid och att skapa en meningsfull dialog mellan gammalt och nytt. Jag har sett det befintliga som en källa till inspiration och kunskap och mitt förslag består av tillägg som både förstärker de rumsliga kvalitéerna i det befintliga och förlänga atmosfären in i det nya. / The idea for my thesis began to emerge last year when I was studying as an exchange student in the US, in west coast city Seattle. The city is currently growing and densifying in a rapid pace and most of the new buildings are being built in existing environments. The vast majority is creating big contrasts in the city environment. The aim of my thesis project has been to carry an existing building from the past into the present and to create a meaningful dialogue between old and new. I have seen the existing as a source of inspiration and knowledge, and my proposal consists of interventions that aim to both strengthen the spatial qualities of the existing, and to extend the atmosphere into my proposed extension. My work also aims to add new ways of experiencing the existing building, to create a new, stronger ensemble of spaces.