Naked Lunch - Literature Concordances. The William S. Burroughs Files. William s. burroughs - dead city radio. Inter-zone.org. University Libraries Finding Aids: Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Summary Information Abstract Author, artist, spoken word performer, and founding member of the Beat Generation.
The William S. Burroughs Papers contain manuscripts and galley proofs of some of Burroughs's novels, as well as biographical material on Burroughs. At a Glance Arrangement Arrangement This collection is arranged in four series. Return to top Description Scope and Content The William S. Series I: Correspondence, 1953-1973 The Correspondence series contains a few select pieces of correspondence between Burroughs and his friends and collaborators. Series II: Writings, 1958-1969 The Writings series is the largest series in the collection and contains working drafts of 1961's Grove Press Edition of The Soft Machine, as well as annotated drafts and galley proofs of Burroughs's substantial 1965 revision of the novel published by Grove Press. Series III: Photographs and Realia The photographs in the collection are mostly snapshots of Burroughs and Herbert Huncke. Using the Collection. Laurie Anderson, Language is a Virus. DOOM PATROLS, Chapter 10, William Burroughs.
By Steven Shaviro ©1995-1997 Steven Shaviro "Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?
" In this epigram, Burroughs suggests that parasitism--corruption, plagiarism, surplus appropriation--is in fact conterminous with life itself. The tapeworm doesn't simply happen to attach itself to an intestine that was getting along perfectly well without it. Say rather that the intestine evolved in the way that it did just in order to provide the tapeworm with a comfortable or profitable milieu, an environment in which it might thrive. And so it is with language. Burroughs' formulation is of course deliberately paradoxical, since viruses are never originary beings.
Reproduction (sexual or otherwise) is often sentimentally regarded as the basic activity and fundamental characteristic of life. Language is one of these mechanisms of reproduction. A virus has no morals, as Rosa von Praunheim puts it, talking about HIV; and similarly the language virus has no meanings. Go to my homepage. EPC William Burroughs Author Home Page. William S. Burroughs' Preserved Poop Inspires 'Bio-Art' Piece. Controversial 20th-century novelist William S.
Burroughs was best known for his novel "Naked Lunch," and now two "bio-artists" are hoping to turn the remains of his last lunches into art. Adam Zaretsky and Tony Allard are the creators of " Mutate or Die: A W.S. Burroughs Biotechnical Bestiary ," an ongoing project that basically turns a piece of Burroughs' poop into a piece of art. Burroughs died in 1997 at the age of 83 in Lawrence, Kan., and the poop being used belongs to a family friend and is covered in epoxy, presumably until it could be used for a higher purpose such as this. Courtesy Adam Zaretsky Artists Adam Zaretsky and Tony Allard are creating an art piece using a piece of poop that was once in the colon of controversial writer William S. Zaretsky, who has a background in biotech, and Allard, a college professor in San Diego, say their plan is to "take a glob" of the preserved poop, isolate the DNA and make lots of copies of it. So do bodily fluids. Sponsored Links.
Article about a Burroughs portrait of Crowley on display in Chicago. William Burroughs and Jimmy Page talking about magic, infra-sound and Aleister Crowley, 1977. William S. Burroughs lecture,writing class,June 25,1986,on paranormal,synchronicity,dreams. Texts by William S. Burroughs. The Floating Library. What Lee is looking for is contact or recognition, like a photon emerging from the haze of insubstantiality to leave an indelible recording in Allerton’s consciousness.
Failing to find an adequate observer, he is threatened by painful dispersal, like an unobserved photon. (xvi) “I glance at the manuscript of Queer and feel I simply can’t read it. My past was a poisoned river from which one was fortunate to escape, and by which one feels immediately threatened, years after the events recorded. –Painful to an extent I find it difficult to read, let alone write about. The event towards which Lee feels himself inexorably driven is the death of his wife by his own hand, the knowledge of possession, a dead hand waiting to slip over his like a glove. My concept of possession is closer to the medieval model than to modern psychological explanations, with their dogmatic insistence that such manifestations must come from within and never, never, never from without. Cut-Up Machine.