Brion Gysin: Dream Machine at the Institut D’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhone-Alpes. 16 October — 28 November 2010. by Ian MacFadyen Gysin Homage One | Burroughs-Gysin Excursus | Gysin Homage Two Gysin Homage Two: The Great Transducer, Uher / Iki Ga Nagai — Iki Ga Mijikai / Kireji / Chod, 23 Code, The Biologic Film /…
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Electronic Revolution
[M&M A21] Cambridge: Blackmoor Head Press 1971, Limited signed / numbered edition of 50 copies printed on special paper and issued in a cardboard case. Drawings by Brion Gysin. Bilingual French and English text of a two-part 52-page essay on media and manipulation, about equal parts paranoia and genius, as much of Burroughs’ work tended…
The Secret Cut-Up
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, William Burroughs and Moroccan Healing by David Holzer Lou Reed once said that William S. Burroughs “changed my vision of what you could write about, how you could write.” Scholars have explored how Burroughs’ example shaped Reed’s conceptual thinking, subject matter and writing style but not how it might have…
Cyberkampf, Part III: Going Places
An interview with Raf Valvola & Gomma by Christophe Becker – You must have shot an awful lot of tigers, sir. – Yes, I used a machine gun. The Italian Job, 1969 Children of the Italian anarcho-communist scene, Gomma (Ermanno Guarneri) and Ralf Valvola (Raf Scelsi) founded their own underground magazine in 1987 and named…
#7 – Jed Birmingham
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series on the The Greatest Burroughs Collectors. #7 is Jed Birmingham. It does not matter if you have five books or five thousand, one’s own book collection is inherently the most important and most interesting. These are the…
Rat
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting In my Burroughs searching, I saw that a sizable run (58 issues) of International Times from its first incarnation of 1966-1973 (in total 164 issues) is up for sale from Any Amount of Books (London) for about $1,300. This is roughly $22 an…
Chicago 1968
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting An installment in The Visible Man: A Coffee Table Zine of Photographs of William S. Burroughs In the last few years there has been a trend in book-collecting circles of getting away from traditional books in favor of ephemeral documents like photographs and…
The Revised Boy Scout Manual
A Review of “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electronic Revolution, edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett, forthcoming from the Ohio State University Press. “Lost Masterpiece Rediscovered” claims the blurb on the cover of William S. Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electronic Revolution. Without criticizing the marketing team too much,…
Enter Mister Maurice
A Memoir of Maurice Girodias by William Levy “Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none more wonderful than man.” — Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus For over half-a-century whenever authors met talk would eventually come around to the maverick Maurice Girodias and his Olympia Press. Did you or didn’t you? Did you or didn’t you hit…
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
William S. Burroughs & the Wreckers of Civilization by Matthew Levi Stevens Genesis P Orridge and William S. Burroughs, circa 1981 (xerox from NME) Sometime in 1973 William S. Burroughs received in the mail to Duke Street an apparently irate letter, complaining: “Dear William S. Burroughs, I’m so tired of you and Allen Ginsberg exploiting…
This Beautiful Corrosion — William S. Burroughs at the ZKM
A Review of The Name Is Burroughs: expanded media at the ZKM, Karlsruhe Curated by Axel Heil, Udo Breger and Peter Weibel March 24 — August 8, 2012 Text: Ian MacFadyen Photographs: Eric Andersen .” . .the city moved in swirls and eddies and tornadoes of image. . .” Off the Map This is a…
William S. Burroughs and the Arts: A Bibliography
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting William Burroughs in Artists’ Magazines 1959 Semina, No. 4 (1959). {M&M C11} “Excerpt from “[Have You Seen] Pantapon [sic] Rose[?].” Excerpt from Naked Lunch. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Larkspur, California, 1955-1964 (1-9). Wallace Berman. See “Semina Culture” 1960 Kulchur, [No. 1] (Spring 1960)….
William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard
An In-Depth Account Drawing on Interviews, Correspondence, and Unpublished Documents “I got a Christmas card from Burroughs,” J.G. Ballard told an interviewer in 1986.1 It should not have been much of a surprise: he had known William S. Burroughs for about twenty years; he had recently published an enthusiastic review of Burroughs’ essay collection, The…
Terry Wilson: Cutting Up for Real
The Writing of Perilous Passage Terry Wilson in Conversation with Ian MacFadyen As his book Perilous Passage is published by Synergetic Press, Terry Wilson talks with Ian MacFadyen about the 15 years he spent creating this unique work which embodies and develops the radical Third Mind techniques of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Wilson was…
Nothing Here Now But the Lost Recordings
The Lost Tapes of Carl Weissner, Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach, 1967-1969 by Edward S. Robinson For academics and fans alike, the archives of the pivotal beat triumvir of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac have long been a source of fascination and a continued wealth of lost texts. Despite the excavation of a…
A Trip from Here to There
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine at the Institut D’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhone-Alpes. 16 October — 28 November 2010. by Ian MacFadyen “Everybody here comes from somewhere.” — Michael Stipe “Everything was alive like me on this earth, everything was breathing.” — Brion Gysin Gysin Homage One | Burroughs-Gysin Excursus | Gysin Homage Two Gysin Homage…
Valentine’s Day Reading
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The Date: February 14, 1965 The first thing I think about when I consider William Burroughs’ St. Valentine’s Day Reading is the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929. On that date, five members of the Bugs Moran Gang and two others were shot…
Bulletin from Nothing
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting None of us obsessed with William Burroughs are fascinated by the same writer. Like the agent / addict’s face in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, our impressions of Burroughs are constantly in flux. When I first fell under Burroughs’ spell, I wanted…
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting When I was briefly in graduate school in 1995, I was fascinated by the fate of the letter in the digital age. While studying abroad at King’s College in 1992, I wrote letters weekly and eagerly checked my mailbox daily. Just three years…
C Items
Part Two of “Not in Maynard & Miles” by Eric C. Shoaf In many ways, the magazines and serials are much more difficult to document than books because they were so prevalent at the time. Small press publishing took off in the 1960s, and Burroughs would send something from his “word horde” to nearly any…
Brian Cassidy on Early Photos and Collages by Burroughs
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting To be blunt, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair is the shit. Prior to the fair, I went to the Morgan Library to see their Gutenberg Bible and soak in the atmosphere of J.P. Morgan’s study. The display at the New York show…
Books and Broadside Prints By William S. Burroughs
A Bibliography by Eric C. Shoaf Junky [1953] Naked Lunch [1959] Minutes to Go [1960] The Exterminator [1960] The Soft Machine [1961] The Ticket That Exploded [1962] Dead Fingers Talk [1963] The Yage Letters [1963] Roosevelt After Inauguration [1964] Nova Express [1964] Time [1965] APO-33: A Metabolic Regulator [1965] So Who Owns Death TV? [1967]…
William Burroughs in New York City 1964-1965
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting November 30, 1964 – In a postcard mailed from Gibraltar to Jeff Nuttall dated November 21st, Burroughs stated that he would be sailing for New York City on November 30th. Burroughs experienced considerable problems with the locals in Tangier who had enough of…