Ian MacFadyen's "Codename Burroughs" (2012)

Karlsruhe, Germany: ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (chapbook, essay, signed), 2012.
8.5" x 6.625", 32 pages, stapled wraps.

Codename Burroughs by Ian MacFadyen, an uncommon and well-illustrated essay on Burroughs, a work that evolved into William S. Burroughs/CUT for the exhibition entitled "The Name is Burroughs: Expanded Media" held at the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe between 24 March and 12 August 2012.  Edited by Axel Heil, and copy-edited by Margrit Brehm, Udo Breger, and Stephan Wessendorf. 

This copy is signed by its author, Ian MacFadyen, to Richard Livermore in 2012, and was acquired from Burwood Books (Wickham Market, England).

Contents: 

• Udo Breger: "Brion Gysin in Paris, 1977" (cover photograph)
• Ian MacFadyen: Codename Burroughs:
• "The Icon Is an Iconoclast"
• "The Visionary Wears a Suit and Tie"
• "Photograph the Invisible Man"
• "Disseminate the Manuals for Cutting"
• "Wild Boys Mutate into Diamond Dogs"
• "The Performers Are on the Road Again"
• "Out There Everywhere on the Set"
• "Go from Glue to the Airbrush"
• "Let the Picture Look at You"
• "Blow a Hole through Time"
• "Word Flickers between Sign and Image"
• "Homage to the Vision of Victor Segalen"
• "Revolutionize Vision"
• "In the Beginning — The Cut"
• "Contradiction Is the Method"
• "Cut and Cross the Dividing Line"
• "Cut-Up Is a Way Out"
• "Invent a Strong Black Method"
• "Make the Method Your Own"
• "Laughter Is Followed by Recognition"
• "Cut up Your Immutable Self"
• "Cut-Up on the Street of Mesmerism"
• "Recode the Soft Material"
• "The Cut up Razor is an Assassin's Knife"
• "Change Consciousness and Mutate"
• "Take the Beat Hotel Set to Alamout"
• "Reflect Rotate Permutate"
• "Transpose from One Medium to Another"
• "The Line that Separates Generates"
• "The Third Mind Is Operation Other Half"
• "The Third Mind Is a Writer of Fictions"
• "Cut the Routine as Contact Habit"
• "Photo Montage Becomes Written Mosaic"
• "Layout the Images of Serial Infinity"
• "Bisection Is Illusion"
• "How to Make a Picture of Infinity"
• Udo Breger: "William Burroughs and Brion Gysin with Dreamachine, 1979" (photograph)
• Brion Gysin: "William Burroughs" (photograph)
• Brion Gysin: "Electronic Revolution" (serigraph)
• Claude Pélieu: "America's Going Dry" (collage)
• Udo Breger: "A Paris Walk with Terry Wilson, 1980" (photograph)
• Brion Gysin: "Naked Lunch I" (watercolor)
• Internationale Situationniste: shot collage
• Tetsumi Kudo: "Cage" (mixed media, 1978)
• Christof Kohlhofer: "Uncle Bill as a Young Man" (painting, 1984)
• Tom Sachs: "Baby Doll Phonebook Shot Thrice" (sculpture, 1999)
• Udo Breger: "William Burroughs with Avedon portrait postcards and newspaper, 1979" (photograph)
• Udo Breger: "William Burroughs, Lawrence, Kansas, 1989" (contact sheet)
• László Moholy-Nagy: "The Shooting Gallery" (art, 1973)
• François Lagarde: "The Three Minds" (photographs, 1978)
• Udo Breger: "Dalmeny Court, Duke Street, London, 2009" (photograph)