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Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University, USA) -- Chapter 1: Weaponized Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the?Limits of Control? from Burroughs to Deleuze S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University, USA) -- Chapter 2:?Pay it all back: writing paranoia-paranoid writing? Nathan Moore (Birkbeck College, London, UK) -- Chapter 3:?Posthumanism and Burroughs's 'the invisible generation.'? Katharine Streip (Concordia University, Canada) -- Chapter 4: Tales from the Counterculture: William S. Burroughs Meets?Ziggy Stardust? Barry Faulk (Florida State University, USA) -- Chapter 5: Burroughs Interviews Jimmy Page Chris Michaels (Florida State University, USA) -- Chapter 6: Filmic Techniques in Burroughs's Narratives Paul Ardoin (University of Texas, San Antonio, USA) -- Chapter 7: Making Dead Fingers Talk Oliver Harris (Keele University, UK) -- Chapter 8: Storming the Reality Studio Jed Birmingham (Reality Studio, USA) -- Chapter 9: Cutting up the Century Alex Wermer-Colan (Temple University, USA) -- Chapter 10: "There are no typographical errors in this edition": Burroughs's Textual Infection of the New York School? Nick Sturm (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) -- Chapter 11:?William S. Burroughs as Performance Artist? John M. Bennett (Ohio State University, USA) -- Chapter 12:?Rock n' Roll Hoodlums? Storm the Reality Studio Raymond Blake Stricklin (Florida State University, USA) -- Chapter 13: Publishing Naked Lunch [Transcript of 1962, WNYC radio broadcast] Barney Rosset (Grove Press, USA) -- Appendix A: From the FSU Burroughs Archive: Selected Cut-Ups -- Index.