Contents
Contents
Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words
Part I Theoretical Depositions 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary The
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. Bu
5. Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism
PART II Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology 6. Burroughs's Writing Machines Anthony
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