Jg ballard's high rise6/6/2023 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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