Davis Schneiderman's and Philip Walsh's "Retaking the Universe" (2004)
London, England: Pluto Press (book, anthology, essay), 2004.
8.75" x 5.5" x 0.875", 312 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 0-7453-2082-1.
Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization edited by Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh, as published in hardcover [pictured] and softcover by Pluto Press (London, England) in 2004. An anthology of essays on William S. Burroughs and his works by various scholars. Foreword by Jennie Skerl.
Shoaf IV.272 (only softcover).
Schottlaender v4.I48.
Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Jennie Skerl: Foreword
- Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh: "Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words"
- Part I: Theoretical Depositions:
- Allen Hibbard: "Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary History"
- Timothy S. Murphy: "Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists"
- Philip Walsh: "Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist"
- Jason Morelyle: "Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control and Rescriptive Subjectivity in the Work of William S. Burroughs"
- Jon Longhi: "Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism"
- Part II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology:
- Anthony Enns: "Burroughs's Writing Machines"
- Edward Desautels: "Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation"
- Dennis McDaniel: "New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque"
- Davis Schneiderman: "Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's 'Double Resonance'"
- Jamie Russell: "Guerilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go to the Movies"
- Oliver Harris: "Cutting up Politics"
- Part III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances:
- John Vernon: "The Map and the Machine"
- Ron Roberts: "The High Priest and the Great Beast at The Place of Dead Roads"
- Roberta Fornari: "A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner, a Movie"
- Katharine Streip: "William S. Burroughs, Laughter and the Avant-Garde"
- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru): "Lemurian Time War"
- Contributors' Notes
- Index
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