Terror and Illusion of the Consumerist Utopia in J. G. Ballard’s "Super-Cannes"

In "Super-Cannes" J. G. Ballard depicts the violence in an affluent consumer society under global capitalism from a post-apocalyptic viewpoint. Envisioning the crisis of consumer capitalism at the turn of the millennium, this novel portrays terror and illusion in a consumerist utopia, Eden-Olympia...

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies

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