Acknowledgments Contributors Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA Part 1: Theory 1. Weaponized Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the Limits of Control from Burroughs to Deleuze S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA 2. Pay It All Back: Writing Paranoia-Paranoid Writing Nathan Moore, School of Law, Birkbeck College, London, UK 3. The Tension of Possibility: Reading Closure in Ah Pook through the Sum of the Multiframe Ash Connell-Gonzalez, University of Oregon, USA 4. Fluidity and Fixity in William S. Burroughs Writing Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Part 2: Texts 5. Making Dead Fingers Talk Oliver Harris, Keele University, UK 6. *Whale Drek: The Lost Footnotes of the Olympia Press Naked Lunch Jed Birmingham, Contributing Editor, Reality Studio 7. "There are no typographical errors in this edition": Burroughs's Textual Infection of the New York School Nick Sturm, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 8. I spent months in the morgue: William S. Burroughs appropriation of TIME magazine Tomasz Stompor, Gottingen State and University Library, Germany 9. Digitizing the Word Hoard: Remediating Counter-Cultural Archives after the American Century Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple University (Digital Scholarship Center), USA 10. Mess, Taste, and Gastric Criticism: Digesting Naked Lunch Rona Cran, University of Birmingham, UK Part 3: Performance 11. Performance in the Work of William S. Burroughs John M. Bennett, The Ohio State University, USA 12. Burroughs, Bowie, and the Reshaping of the Counterculture Barry Faulk, Florida State University, USA 13. The Alternative Press is News Blake Stricklin, University of Houston, Victoria, USA Appendix A: Evergreen on the Air: Barney Rosset on Censorship and Publishing Naked Lunch [Transcript of 1962, WNYC radio broadcast], Barney Rosset, Publisher, Grove Press, 1951-1986 Appendix B: Lectures on the Virus, selections from Burroughss lectures at CCNY, 1974 Appendix C: Burroughs Manifest, the lost, found and lost again Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, 12 September 1980 purchase Appendix D: Supplemental Bucher purchases, 12 December, 1990 Appendix E: Burroughs and Bucher, letters and notes 1978-9, 1984 Appendix F: A 30-year wait. A 16-mile journey. The story of the lost Burroughs Archive at Florida State University Index
