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

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by: Davis Schneiderman, Philip Walsh See Larger Image List Price: $34.00 Amazon.com's Price: $27.84 You Save: $6.16 (18%) as of 03/20/2010 08:25 EDT Used Price: $1.70 Third Party New Price: $1.62 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780745320816 ISBN: 0745320813 Label: Pluto Press Manufacturer: Pluto Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 328 Publication Date: May 20, 2004 Publisher: Pluto Press Studio: Pluto Press Features: ISBN13: 9780745320816 Condition: NEW Notes: Related Items: Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction The Adding Machine: Selected Essays see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 work, 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 work. It links his lived experience as junkie, bohemian, queer, drug-addict, visionary and much else besides 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Accessible Studies of Burroughs This text joins what appears to be a growing number of books collecting critical essays on Burroughs' work. The attempts to address Burroughs' relevance in the "Age of Globalization" are tenuous at best; Some authors wisely avoid the subject altogether, while others make a very shoddy job of it. It seems this was a term employed just to sell the concept of the book. The earlier essays in the text, drawing parallels betweens Burroughs' work and other contemporary movements ... Read More Rating: - All agents defect - wouldn't you? Even the best ¨critical¨ ¨theory¨ is just stuff that's been made up to sound big and clever - and this anthology's no different. Some of the pieces are better than others - in that they correlate more with my personal prejudices. One might expect a book about WSB and Globalisation to critique Burroughs's engagement with the Control Machine: Nike/Gap ads, work with corp-rockers U2 blah blah, publication by Murdoch and so on. Strangely this is all omitted. There's not much point pretending it didn't ... Read More

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