Re: [Foucault-L] Williams S. Bourroughs and Foucault

hi,

some excerpts from Burroughs's writings and audio &visual recordings can be
found online at the links below.

cheers,
azer

http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_009/WSBspecial/sounds.htm
http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_009/WSBspecial/wsb.htm


On 3/31/06, Fernando Williams <fernando.wg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader is a book? Is interesting the
> connection you make between William and Foucault, especially about lenguage
> saying that the word is a virus. Lenguage can be tricky, I remember a quote
> from Foucault were he says that lenguage not only separate us from things
> but lenguage is the distance itself. Do you know how can I get a copy of
> "Word Virus..." if there is anything on the net? Badly, I live in Chile, so
> is a little difficult for me to get some books... What connections you see
> between Word Virus and Foucault thoughs on lenguage? Do you know the work of
> Mishima?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Fernando Williams
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> Tony Roberts: Do you know the work of William S. Burroughs? His entire
> body of work is about the addiction to intense experience. His obsession
> with systems of control that we become selves by interpolating echoes
> Foucault as does his emphasis on sites of resistance and the
> psycho-technologies which create them. I believe his concept of language as
> a virus that infects us and uses us to reproduce is a step beyond Foucault.
> "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" would be a good place to
> start.
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