American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication
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- ISBN 9781785277221
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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American Paraliterature examines the generative encounters of post-1968 French theory with the postwar American avant-garde. The book begins with an account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference that was organized by Semiotext(e) editor Sylvère Lotringer at Columbia University. The conference was an attempt to directly connect the American avant-garde with French theory. At the event, John Cage shared the stage with Deleuze and Foucault introduced William S. Burroughs. This schizo-connection presents a way to read the experimental methods of the American avant-garde (Burroughs, Cage, and Kathy Acker), and how their writing creates a counterprogram to the power that Foucault and Deleuze started to articulate in the 1970s.
Blake Stricklin is a lecturer at the University of Houston-Victoria, Texas.
