Douglas Kahn's "Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts" (1999)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.: The MIT Press (book, essays), 1999.
9.25" x 7.25" x 1.375", 455 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-262-11243-4.

Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts by Douglas Kahn, as published by the MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US) in 1999. 

This includes a dedicated chapter on William S. Burroughs entitled "Two Sounds of the Virus: William Burroughs's Pure Meat Method", pp. 293-321, within Part V: "Meat Voices". This contains subchapters on "A Culture for Growing Viruses", "Schlupping", "On Goo Behavior", "The Cancer Virus", and "Cellular Phones".

This discusses Naked Lunch, Burroughs' theories of virus, Nova Express, Queer and "schlupping", Korzybski, Wilhelm Reich and orgone energy, Junkie, Scientology and the engram, more.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction:
• Listening through History
• Prelude: Modernism
• Explanations and Qualifications
• Part I: Significant Noises:
• 1. Immersed in Noise:
• Sentient Sound
• Interpolation of Noise
• Protean Noise
• Oscillator Noise
• 2. Noises of the Avant-Garde:
• Bruitism
• Noise and Simultaneity
• The Future of War Noises
• Part II: Drawing the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography:
• 3. Concerning the Line:
• Resident Noises
• The Gloss of the Gliss
• Beethoven at Fifty Times per Second
• "I, the Accelerated Line"
• 4. The Sound of Music:
• Demarcated Sounds
•  Drawing the Line in Theory
• Synaesthesia as Noise Abatement
• 5. Ubiquitous Recording:
• The Rotary Revolution
• Russian Revolutionary Film
• Part III: The Impossible Inaudible
• 6. John Cage: Silence and Silencing
• Much to COnfess about Nothing
• Canned Silence
• Silencing Techniques
• Cage and the Impossible Inaudible
• 7. Nondissipative Sounds and the Impossible Inaudible
• Inaudibly Loud, Long-Lasting, Far-Reaching
• Machines of Nondissipation
• 8. The Parameters of All Sound
• Long Sounds
• Conceptual Sounds
• Part IV: Water Flows and Flux
• 9. A Short Art History of Water Sound
• Water Music
• Dripping
• Surrealism and Submerged Women
• 10. In the Wake of Dripping: New York at Midcentury
• The Object of Performance
• Allan Kaprow: Immersed Noisician
• George Brecht's Drip Music
• Part V: Meat Voices
• 11. Two Sounds of the Virus: William Burroughs's Pure Meat Method
• A Culture for Growing Viruses
• Schlupping
• On Goo Behavior
• The Cancer Virus
• Cellular Phones
• 12. Cruelty and the Beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure
• Artaud in America
• Musical Artauds: Tudor and Cage
• Beast Language
• Affected and Afflicted Screaming
• Seraphic Screams and the Tortuous Blast
• Notes
• Index