Retaking the universe : William S. Burroughs in the age of globalization / edited by Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Jennie Skerl -- Introduction: Millions of people reading the same words / Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh -- Part I: Theoretical depositions. Shift coordinate points: William S. Burroughs and contemporary theory / Allen Hibbard ; Exposing the reality film: William S. Burroughs among the Situationists / Timothy S. Murphy ; Reactivating the dialectic of enlightenment: Burroughs as critical theorist / Philip Walsh ; Speculating freedom: addiction, control, and rescriptive subjectivity in the work of William S. Burroughs / Jason Morelyle ; Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism / Jon Longhi -- Part II: Writing, sign, instrument: language and technology. Burroughs's writing machines / Anthony Enns ; Totally wired: prepare your affidavits of explanation / Edward Desautels ; New world ordure: Burroughs, globalization and the grotesque / Dennis McDaniel ; Nothing Hear now but the recordings: Burroughs's 'double resonance' / Davis Schneiderman ; Guerrilla conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch go to the movies / Jamie Russell ; Cutting up politics / Oliver Harris -- Part III: Alternatives: realities and resistances. The map and the machine / John Vernon ; The high priest and the great beast at The place of dead roads / Ron Roberts ; A camera on violence: reality and fiction in Blade runner: a movie / Roberta Fornari ; William S. Burroughs, laughter and the avant-garde / Katharine Streip ; Lemurian time war / Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru).

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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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