Sep 29
“Ballard had been an admirer of Paolozzi’s work since the early 50s, seeing in it a surrealism and obsession with the darker undercurrents of society that he was writing about, and recruited him to Ambit alongside his role as prose editor. His first contribution, Moonstrips Empire News appeared in Ambit #33 in 1967, but represented more than a decade of experimentation with text and image. Further contributions included a “novel”, Why We Are In Vietnam, consisting of cut-up newspaper reports on group murders and the economy, and Nippon Agency, a similar experiment with the Japanese press, the fruits of several months spent working in that country.”
