Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words -- Part I: Theoretical Depositions -- 1. Shift Coordinate Points: William S. Burroughs and Contemporary Theory -- 2. Exposing the Reality Film: William S. Burroughs Among the Situationists -- 3. Reactivating the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Burroughs as Critical Theorist -- 4. Speculating Freedom: Addiction, Control and Rescriptive Subjectivity in the Work of William S. Burroughs -- 5. Excursus: Burroughs, Dada and Surrealism -- Part II: Writing, Sign, Instrument: Language and Technology -- 6. Burroughs's Writing Machines Anthony Enns -- 7. Totally Wired: Prepare Your Affidavits of Explanation -- 8. New World Ordure: Burroughs, Globalization and the Grotesque -- 9. Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs's Double Resonance -- 10. Guerilla Conditions: Burroughs, Gysin and Balch Go to the Movies -- 11. Cutting up Politics -- Part III: Alternatives: Realities and Resistances -- 12. The Map and the Machine -- 13. The High Priest and the Great Beast at The Place of Dead Roads -- 14. A Camera on Violence: Reality and Fiction in Blade Runner, a Movie -- 15. William S. Burroughs, Laughter and the Avant- Garde -- 16. Lemurian Time War -- Contributors Notes -- Index.