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Retaking the Universe : William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849644853
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Retaking the UniverseDDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.U75 -- Z835 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words -- Part I: Theoretical Depositions -- 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory -- 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists -- 3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist -- 4. Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control and Rescriptive Subjectivity in the Work of William S. Burroughs -- 5. Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism -- Part II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology -- 6. Burroughs's Writing Machines Anthony Enns -- 7. Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation -- 8. New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque -- 9. Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's Double Resonance -- 10. Guerilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go to the Movies -- 11. Cutting up Politics -- Part III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances -- 12. The Map and the Machine -- 13. The High Priest and the Great Beast at The Place of Dead Roads -- 14. A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner, a Movie -- 15. William S. Burroughs, Laughter and the Avant- Garde -- 16. Lemurian Time War -- Contributors Notes -- Index.
Summary: Cutting-edge analysis on the life and works of William S. Burroughs covering both his fiction and journals.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words -- Part I: Theoretical Depositions -- 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory -- 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists -- 3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist -- 4. Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control and Rescriptive Subjectivity in the Work of William S. Burroughs -- 5. Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism -- Part II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology -- 6. Burroughs's Writing Machines Anthony Enns -- 7. Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation -- 8. New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque -- 9. Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's Double Resonance -- 10. Guerilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go to the Movies -- 11. Cutting up Politics -- Part III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances -- 12. The Map and the Machine -- 13. The High Priest and the Great Beast at The Place of Dead Roads -- 14. A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner, a Movie -- 15. William S. Burroughs, Laughter and the Avant- Garde -- 16. Lemurian Time War -- Contributors Notes -- Index.

Cutting-edge analysis on the life and works of William S. Burroughs covering both his fiction and journals.

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