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Archive for the ‘occult’ Category

Crown Casino: ‘A snarling, digitised mutilation’

By Simon Sellars Melb Psy • May 27th, 2009 •

Category: Australia, CCTV, Lead Story, advertising, alternate worlds, architecture, audio, boredom, consumerism, death of affect, deep time, fascism, features, hyperreality, leisure, micronations, occult, perception, photography, psychogeography, schizophrenia, surveillance, temporality, time travel, utopia

Simon Sellars, Mel Chilianis and Melb Psy take an audiovisual tour of Melbourne’s Crown Casino, seeking to map the coordinates of this micronational zone — consumer-driven control space with a raging need.



Black Plaque for Dr Robert Vaughan

By Simon Sellars • Jul 21st, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, occult, photography, speed & violence, surrealism

‘Northolt through an Ubu absurd lens’: the latest photo essay from English Heretic, tracking the dark heart of Ballard’s Crash.