DADA CULTURE CRITICAL TEXTS ON THE AVANT-GARDE

CONTENTS

Short preface

Introduction

I. Manifestos and Evenings at the Cabaret Voltaire

The Mysterious Moment: early Dada performance as ritual

The Body of the Voice: corporeal poetics in Dada

II. Dada and Language

The Language of "Expatriation"

Assaulting the Order of Signs

III. Dada Siegt!

The Prosthetic Body in Early Modernism: Dada's anti-humanist humanism

Montage and Totality: Kurt Schwitters's relationship to "tradition" and "avant-garde"

IV. Thinkers on Stage

The Mortality of Roles: Johannes Baader and spiritual materialism

To Be or Not To Be … Arthur Cravan: subject, surface and difference

V. Philosophy, Theory and the Avant-Garde

Ernst Bloch and Hugo Ball: toward an ontology of the avant-garde

Making an Example of Duchamp: history, theory, and the question of the avant-garde

VI. Dada Critical Bibliography

A Decade of Dada Scholarship: publications on Dada, 1994–2005

List of illustrations

Contributors