J. G. Ballard’s fiction is a great example of literature that ecocritics find especially interesting and relevant to their work. From his cli-fi novels from the 60s depicting the society’s encounter with the eco-apocalypse in progress, to his urban catastrophe novels from the 70s portraying the society in post eco-apocalyptic era, to his latest quadrilogy [Cocaine Nights (1996), Super-Cannes (2000), Millennium People (2003) and Kingdom Come (2006)] focusing on modern horrors such as urban violence that generates social and psychological entropy as the next level of decline the human race has reached on its path to extinction. Ballard seems to provide a history of the systematic degradation of human beings resulting from their mistreatment of nature and obsession with technological progress. The aim of this paper is to show that his latest urban violence quadrilogy, apart from depicting human degradation taken to its extremes, offers new social forms that emerge from ecological crisis and eco apocalypse and whose formation points to the necessity for reevaluation of the human and more-than-human relationship. Hence, the quadrilogy avoids the trap of being trivialized and labeled as is so common in environmental fiction that it loses its ability to incite fear or eco-activism.

The fiction of J. G. Ballard closely examines contemporary environmental and climate change issues through the author's consistent juxtaposition of natural and urban settings, which are often associated with individuals on both a personal and global level. While his early works -cli-fi novels -primarily focus on global-scale physical catastrophes caused by human activities, his later works -urban disaster and urban violence novels -portray the urban catastrophe that threatens to invade man's personal sphere. This inquiry attempts to demonstrate that the inhabitants of the enclosed societies portrayed in Ballard's urban violence novels, namely Cocaine Nights (1996) and Super-Cannes (2000), are inexorably drifting toward a state of social and psychological entropy.These communities strive to condition their cognitive framework to align with the sterile and impersonal urban environment, thereby eliciting us to envisage incessant reciprocity with the milieu. By introducing the concept of 'trans-corporeality' to connote the fundamental nature of the symbiotic relationship between humans and the 'more-than-human' world, and the consequent blurring of boundaries between body and environment, this paper aims to illuminate the critical significance of environmental health and the notion that the human body (or psyche) is inextricably intertwined with its surroundings.