Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words

Part I: Theoretical Depositions

1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory

2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists

3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist

4. Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control and Rescriptive Subjectivity in the Work of William S. Burroughs

5. Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism

Part II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology

6. Burroughs's Writing Machines Anthony Enns

7. Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation

8. New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque

9. Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's Double Resonance

10. Guerilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go to the Movies

11. Cutting up Politics

Part III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances

12. The Map and the Machine

13. The High Priest and the Great Beast at The Place of Dead Roads

14. A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner, a Movie

15. William S. Burroughs, Laughter and the Avant- Garde

16. Lemurian Time War

Contributors Notes

Index