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William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan.William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points-literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsCollage of Time Harvard Lampoon Parody, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1965Introduction: Cutting Up the Century / Alex Wermer-Colan and Joan HawkinsBiographical Timeline Metamorphosis1. Cutting Up the Century / Oliver HarrisThe Reality StudioSECTION I: ICON/VIRALDeposition of the Ugly Spirit, William S. Burroughs, typescript, Villa Muniria, Summer 19612. Burroughs and Biography: An Interview with Barry Miles / Oliver HarrisCutting Up the Critics, typescripts, 1962-643. The Nova Convention: Celebrating the Burroughs of Downtown New York / Kristen GalvinNova Convention Poster, Sylvere Lotringer, facsimile, 19784. The Disembodied Fry: William S. Burroughs and Vocal Performance / Landon PalmerCut-up with Limericks, William S. Burroughs, typescript, 19715. William S. Burroughs' Spirit of Collaboration / Allen HibbardSECTION II: SPACE/TIME6. Burroughs and the Biosphere, 1974-1997 / Kathelin GrayThe Permissive Society, William S. Burroughs, typescript, 19717. Beat Regionalism: Burroughs in Mexico, Burroughs in Women's Studies / Aaron NyergesCollage of Newsclippings, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 19708. Interference Zones: William Burroughs in the Interstices of Globalization / Timothy S. MurphyOn China9. Cut-Up City: William S. Burroughs' "St. Louis Return" / Eric SandweissSECTION III: WORD/IMAGEOn Addiction10. William S. Burroughs' Imperial Decadence: Subversive Literature in the Cynical Age of the American Century / Alex Wermer-ColanOpium Collage, William S. Burroughs, typescript, Dream Rat Calendar, Monday Bellevue 4, 197011. Naked Lunch and the Art of Incompleteness: The Use of Genre in Burroughs' Book and Cronenberg's Film / Joshua VasquezThe Fall of Art12. Queer Outlaws Losing: The Betrayal of the Outlaw Underground in The Place of Dead Roads / Kurt HemmerThinking in Colors13. Rimbaud and Genet, Burroughs' Favorite Mirrors / Veronique LaneSECTION IV: CUT/FOLDOn the Cut-Up14. Cross the Wounded Galaxies: A Conversation about the Cut-Up Trilogy / Davis Schneiderman and Oliver HarrisThe Photo Collage: Watergate15. "Word FallingPhoto Falling": William S. Burroughs and the Word as Written Image / Blake StricklinCutting Up Scientology16. Mutable Forms: The Proto-Ecology of William Burroughs' Early Cut-Ups / Chad WeidnerSECTION V: BODY/SPIRITThe Wild Boys, A Pornographic Screenplay17. William S. Burroughs, Transcendence Porn, and The Ticket That Exploded / Katharine StreipDream Note on Indictment for Murdering Joan, William S. Burroughs18. Gender Trouble: A Critical Roundtable on Burroughs and Gender / Ann Douglas, Anne Waldman, and Regina WeinreichCutting Up Last Words19. The Burroughs Effect / Anne WaldmanRoot Face, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1987Index
