Everyone here is wrong. This song references the collection of stories 'Myths of the Near Future' by JG Ballard, from whom the album is also named. Both he and Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow) are post WWII writers; and both can be considered as post modern in their circumvention of modernist styles of writing in favourof challenging the reader into a crisis of comprehension, by scattering metafictional clues throughout their texts, whilst keeping themselves at arms length. This is best detailed by David Bennett in his article 'Parody, postmodernism, and the politics of reading' . JG Ballard has also been referenced most notably by Joy Division in their songs 'Atrocity Exhibition' and 'Closer'.
Everyone here is wrong. This song references the collection of stories 'Myths of the Near Future' by JG Ballard, from whom the album is also named. Both he and Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow) are post WWII writers; and both can be considered as post modern in their circumvention of modernist styles of writing in favourof challenging the reader into a crisis of comprehension, by scattering metafictional clues throughout their texts, whilst keeping themselves at arms length. This is best detailed by David Bennett in his article 'Parody, postmodernism, and the politics of reading' . JG Ballard has also been referenced most notably by Joy Division in their songs 'Atrocity Exhibition' and 'Closer'.