The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

Tacita Dean
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The Lost Souls by J.G. Ballard is a science fiction novel about the futility of human life. The story is about a secret military project to fulfill mankind’s need to control its emotions, which was designed to control the feelings of humans so that they would be less vulnerable to dangerous situations. The project was abandoned after the humans revolted against it, and the result was predictable: the humans became dangerous, murderous beings.

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