Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.
Contents:
PART 1: On the association line: a narrative revolution -- Addressing critical assumptions -- Making a language of independence -- Writing against ideology -- Reassessing narrative as subject -- Reading by association -- PART 2: Word, virus, pharmakon, and Burroughs' method -- Parasite and virus -- Pharmakon and pharmakeus -- Method and mosaic -- PART 3: Get off the point: deconstructing context -- Time and history -- Place and culture -- PART 4: The mark inside: decentralizing the narrative subjectivity -- Dislocating the narrative -- Splitting the self -- Reassessing narrative subjectivity -- PART 5: Cross the wounded galaxies: implications and influences of Borroughs' narrative experiments -- The hypertext and the cybertext -- The cyborg and the posthuman -- The virtual and the viral -- The ghost in the soft machine -- Conclusion: a singularity.
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