Retaking the universe William S. Burroughs in the age of globalization (Pluto Press, 2004)
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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)