MIKE HOLLIDAY'S WEB PAGES
A link to my Philosophy notes - a series of notes that I put together as part of an informal research project between 2000 and 2005:
1: A brief introduction
2: 'Mirroring reality': how not to think about the world
3: An alternative metaphor
4: Emergence, existence, and explanation
5: Conscious experiences
6: In lieu of a conclusion ...
Appendix: Realism and the physical world
Here's where you can find my articles about the author J. G. Ballard, a number of which have been published over at Ballardian.com:
'Fulfillment in a Time of Nihilism' - Ballard and the British political philosopher John Gray: a mutual admiration society
'A Fascist State? Another look at Kingdom Come and Consumerism' - reconsidering Ballard's final novel
'Ballard and the Vicissitudes of Time' - a central theme in Ballard's fiction, as it appears in three stories from the early 1980s
'J. G. Ballard's Court Circular'- a minor work from 1968 that nevertheless reveals much that is of interest
'A Home and a Grave' - an alternative take on the novel The Unlimited Dream Company
An article on the Unicorn Bookshop obscenity trial of 1968, which featured one of Ballard's stories
'Angry Old Men' - my interview with the author Michael Moorcock in which he discusses Ballard's influence
An interview with the author and publisher Michael Butterworth where we discuss Ballard, Savoy Books, censorship, and much more
A series of discussions on 'The Atrocity Exhibition', transcribed from the JGB list on Yahoo Groups
J. G. Ballard: A Collector's Guide (last updated 14 November 2011)
My email address is: mike@holli.co.uk