Retaking the Universe William S Burroughs in the Age of Globalization

This anthology of writings on the work of William S. Burroughs offers genuinely new and contemporary scholarship on a hugely influential and still widely read and studied cultural phenomenon. It offers an interdisciplinary consideration of the varied lives and works of Burroughs - as junkie, bohemian, queer, drug-addict, visionary, wife murderer and much else besides - in addition to the 40 major prose works written from 1953 to the posthumous publication of his journals in 2000. Their move beyond the merely literary -- to argue for the social and political dimensions and relevance of Burroughs' work -- makes this collection unique.
Foreword: Jennie Skerl / Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words - Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh / PART I: Theoretical Depositions / 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory - Allen Hibbard / 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists - Timothy S. Murphy / 3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical / Theorist - Philip Walsh / 4. Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control, and Rescriptive Subjectivity in / the Work of William S. Burroughs - Jason Morelyle / 5. Excursus on Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism - Jon Longhi / PART II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology / 6. Burroughs's Writing Machines - Anthony Enns / 7. Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation - Edward Desautels / 8. New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque - Dennis McDaniel / 9. Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's 'Double Resonance' - / Davis Schneiderman / 10. Guerrilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go To The Movies - / Jamie Russell / 11. Cutting Up Politics - Oliver Harris / PART III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances / 12. The Map and the Machine, reprint from The Garden and the Map (1973) - John Vernon / 13. The High Priest and The Great Beast at the Place of Dead Roads - Ron Roberts / 14. A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner: A Movie - Roberta Fornari / 15. William S. Burroughs: Laughter and Avant-Garde Strategies - Katherine / Streip / 16. Lemurian Time War - Cybernetic Culture Research Unit / Index /