Retaking the Universe

William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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William S. Burroughs is one of America's most influential and widely studied writers. A leading member of the Beat movement, his books and essays continue to attract a wide readership. His films, paintings, recordings and other projects that grew out of his literary production, together with his iconic persona as a counter-culture (anti-)hero, mean his work has become a broad cultural phenomenon. This collection of essays by leading scholars offers an interdisciplinary consideration of Burroughs's art. It links his lived experience to his many major prose works written from 1953 on, as well his sound, cinema and media projects. Moving beyond the merely literary, the contributors argue for the continuing social and political relevance of Burroughs's work for the emerging global order. Themes include: Burroughs and contemporary theory; debates on 'reality'; violence; magic and mysticism; cybernetic cultures; language and technology; control and transformation; transgression and addiction; the limits of prose; image politics and the avant-garde.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-05-20
Mått135 x 215 x undefined mm
Vikt397 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagPluto Press
ISBN9780745320816

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Davis Schneiderman is Chair of the American Studies Program and an Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College, Illinois. He is currently engaged in research on Burroughs's connections to literary plagiarism and issues of digital copyright.Philip Walsh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. He is author of Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory.

Foreword: Jennie SkerlIntroduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words - Davis Schneidermanand Philip WalshPART I: Theoretical Depositions1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory -Allen Hibbard 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists -Timothy S. Murphy3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as CriticalTheorist - Philip Walsh4. Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control, and Rescriptive Subjectivity inthe Work of William S. Burroughs - Jason Morelyle5. Excursus on Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism - Jon LonghiPART II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology6. Burroughs's Writing Machines - Anthony Enns7. Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation - Edward Desautels8. New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque - DennisMcDaniel9. Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's 'Double Resonance' -Davis Schneiderman10. Guerrilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go To The Movies -Jamie Russell11. Cutting Up Politics - Oliver HarrisPART III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances12. The Map and the Machine, reprint from The Garden and the Map (1973) -John Vernon13. The High Priest and The Great Beast at the Place of Dead Roads - RonRoberts14. A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner: A Movie -Roberta Fornari15. William S. Burroughs: Laughter and Avant-Garde Strategies - KatherineStreip 16. Lemurian Time War - Cybernetic Culture Research UnitIndex