Hyper-Organizational Space in the Work of J. G. Ballard
借助列斐伏尔的空间生产理论,分析摩天楼、度假村和办公园区三种超组织空间的社会生产、权力关系及居住者的抗争,并以巴拉德的三部小说为例。
This paper explores three hyper-organizational spaces: the skyscraper, the resort and the office-park. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's account of the production of space, we consider how these spaces are socially produced, how they materialize relations of power and how inhabitants engage in struggle to change these spaces. Three novels by J. G. Ballard are selected to explore each of these spaces. We argue that in each of these novels, such hyper-organizational environments can be understood as the product of ongoing struggle between centrally planned and practiced space, and peripheral lived space. This both animates these spaces and the lived relations that comprise them, as well as potentially destroying them.