Jack Sargeant's "Against Control" (2014)

Göteborg, Sweden: Eight Millimetres (book, essays), 2014.
8.125" x 5.25" x 0.625", 98 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 978-91-981814-0-1.

Against Control, a book of essays by Jack Sargeant as published in hardcover by Eight Millimetres (Göteborg, Sweden) in 2014. Design by Jonas Kellagher. Introduction by Michael Spann (editor, Xochi Publications). Photographs by Mark Bennett, Lee Renaldo, Nik Sheehan, Herman Vanaerschot, Barry Hale, and Alex Munt.

As noted on the back cover, "Against Control collects together a selection of essays by author Jack Sargeant that explore the multiple influences of William S. Burroughs and various aspects of the wide Burroughs' Universe. In these essays aspects of Burroughs' work, and especially his speculative ideas, are presented through their intersections with sound, with imagined histories, and with mythologies. Incorporating ideas from the philosophies of libertarian pirates to Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville's Dreamachine, from the space program and science fiction literature to the Master Musicians of Joujouka, and all points in between. These pages offer jumping off-points and strategies for new ideas and points of research."

Contents: 

• Introduction by Michael Spann
• "Author's Preface"
• "Fifty-Years of Naked Lunch"
• "Let There Be Light: Flicker, Expanded Consciousness and Dreamachines"
• "The Rites of Boujeloud"
• "The League of Sonic Grey Gentlemen"
• "Outlaws and Utopias: Brief Thoughts and Observations on Burroughs' Outlaw Pantheon"
• Bibliography
• Author's Biography