![]() ![]() Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley’s 2015 cinematic adaptation of High-Rise elegantly brings out the central themes of Ballard’s dystopian nightmare. ![]() Through the physical disintegration and social devolution of the titular high-rise, Ballard disrupts the tenets of the project of architectural modernism, allowing a new, violent, and distinctly irrational way of inhabiting space to emerge. ![]() Like much of Ballard’s writing, the novel is concerned with the psychopathological dimensions of modernity, and the capacity for primordial impulses to evade its civilizing constraints. Ballard’s High-Rise (1975) is frequently read as an imagined social experiment-an effort to under- stand, as one of its characters puts it, “the physical and psycho- logical pressures of living in a huge condominium” (HR 12). ![]()
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