Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Before Burroughs: The Prehistory of the Cut-Ups -- Literary Precedents: Dada, Surrealism, Modernism, T. S.Eliot, Tristan Tzara, John Dos Passos and John Cage -- From The Avant-Garde to Influence, Intertextuality and Postmodernism -- Tracing the History of the Cut-Ups -- 1 The Origin and Theory of the Cut-Ups -- Brion Gysin -- William S. Burroughs -- Naked Lunch: A Cut-Up Apprenticeship -- Early Cut-Ups, Other Modes of Experimentation and Word as Virus -- The Nova Trilogy -- Beyond the Written Word: Cut-Ups in Other Media -- 2 Early Successors: Pélieu, Giorno, Weissner -- Claude Pélieu: Cutting Up Character -- John Giorno: Found Images and Dual Narratives -- Carl Weissner: The Text as Multimedia Collage -- Inter-Section. The Mutations of Burroughs: Revising the Cut-Up Technique -- Words and Pictures: Burroughs' Multimedia Texts of the 1970s -- Burroughs' Later Work: Piracy and Utopia in Cities of the Red Night -- 3 Kathy Acker: Plagiarism and Adaptation - From Cut-Up to Cut-and-Paste -- Early Cut-Ups: Acker and the Third Mind -- Blood and Guts: Cut-and-Paste -- Pussy, King of the Pirates: Piracy, Plagiarism and Myth -- 4 Stewart Home: Pulp, Parody, Repetition and the Cut-Up Renaissance -- Early Works: Plagiarism, Repetitions and the Avant-Garde in Smile and Slow Death -- Dissolving Character: Come Before Christ and Murder Love and Divvy -- Returning to Source: Cut-Ups in Home's Recent Work -- 5 Further Mutations: The Cut-Ups in the New Millennium -- Cutting Through Theoretical Boundaries: Postmodern or Avant-Garde? -- Graham Rawle: Cut-Up Collage in a Woman's World -- Philippe Vasset's Scriptgenerator©®TM: Writing Machines and the Death of the Author -- Kenji Siratori, Lee Kwo and Antony Hitchin: Digital Cut-Ups and New Extremities.

The Future Leaks Out -- Works Cited -- Index.