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Phoebe Gloeckner Interview

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Adrian Holme interviewed Professor Phoebe Gloeckner for Varoom! Magazine’s Empathy Issue.” They discuss her illustrations for the annotated edition of J.G. Ballard’s deeply controversial novel, The Atrocity Exhibition (1991, Re/​Search Publications, with photos by Ana Barrado) in relation to Ballard’s idea that we live in a culture beyond empathy.” How does one visually express the idea of the death of affect?” 

Varoom! (Illustration, Culture, Society) is the journal of the British Association of Illustrators (AOI)

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