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Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization
This collection of essays by leading scholars offers an  interdisciplinary consideration of Burroughs's art. It links his lived experience to his many major prose works written from the 1950s on, as well his sound, cinema and media projects. Moving beyond the merely literary, the contributors argue for the continuing social and political relevance of Burroughs's work for the emerging global order.
Themes include: Burroughs and contemporary theory; debates on 'reality'; violence; magic and mysticism; cybernetic cultures; language and technology; control and transformation; transgression and addiction; the limits of prose; image politics and the avant-garde.
Ordering Information:
US-University of Michigan Press
UK-Pluto Press
Testimonials:
"Schneiderman and Walsh's new collection should mark the beginning of a new and wider view of the contemporary implications of Burroughs's thought. This collection is retaking the universe of Burroughsian interpretation-starting now."
-James Grauerholz, Burroughs's literary executor
"'Retaking the Universe' .is the first serious and well-conceived study of [Burroughs's] global influence."
-Victor Bockris, author of With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker; Warhol; Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie; and Transformer: The Lou Reed Story
"More than any other writer of the last fifty years, William Burroughs cracked the code of the hyperreal, ultra-commodified society of control, and charted out possible lines of escape. These essays testify to the continuing relevance of Burroughs's words and projects in the twenty-first century."
-Steven Shaviro, author of the Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism and Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
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