I can't remember if we have discussed Ballard within our sessions, but I thought his novel Concrete Island has some crossover with our discussions. Here is an article that raises some interesting points from the text which seem relevant, I'm thinking specifically of the reference to a crypt, the highway in parallel to the railway and the void space that the novel takes place in.
http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2015articles/pdf/ebljarticle52015.pdf
Yes - Ballard v relevant to these discussions. Both in terms of negative space, voids, wastelands of modernity, crypts in all their senses (in Crash, people's bodies become coded palimpsests on which the history of crashes is written in scar-hieroglyphics, and dented cars the same); and also in terms of the way the car crash is like a modern version of the shipwreck.
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