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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"cut-up technique"”.
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Night-glory: cut-up literature, anarchism, and the question of the subject
… implicit to literary texts composed through the cut-up technique. It argues that the aleatory and processual experiments in Gertrude Stein's, William S. Burroughs', Kathy Acker's, and Kenji Siratori's cut-up works appeal to principles of embodiment, affect, and affinity foundational for anarchist …
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
This dissertation examines the techniques and themes of William Burroughs by placing him in the American Pragmatist tradition. Chapter One presents a pragmatic critical approach to literature based on Richard Rorty and John Dewey, focusing on the primacy of narration over argumentation, …
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Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… narrative in a process that involves a kind of cut-up technique of past notes and diaries, which in fact echoes Jons’ own attempted reconstruction of his father’s life. Section II Critical Commentary: A reflective self-commentary is offered on the main formal and experimental decisions made in …
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Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance
… greatly influenced by Sam Harris’ book Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014) and to some extent from chaos magick, some iterations of which strive to ‘free’ the western esoteric tradition from its religious trappings. I also take cues from Hakim Bey (1985) as one of the few …