This and other questions addressed in this interview with JG Ballard:
http://www.ballardian.com/perverse-technology-jgballard-hardmag-interview

Anything you violently disagree with? Please share the violence.

Most artists and writers in the past have been middle-class, the surrealists to a man, with backgrounds similar to those of the Baader-Meinhof gang. However, the middle-class world against which they rebelled was vast and self-confident. Who today would bother to rebel against the Guardian or Observer-reading, sushi-nibbling, liberal, tolerant middle-class? I think the main target the young writer/artist should rebel against is himself or herself.

Ballard is a closet hipster!

Originally posted by Seitse

[b]Ballard is a closet hipster![/b]