THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

William S. Burroughs

Burroughs

nature

Novelist who treated language itself as a parasite and a control mechanism, and who developed the cut-up method with Brion Gysin as a way of breaking the sentence's grip on the reader.

The most radical claim in the corpus: not that language shapes thought, but that language is a virus with an agenda of its own. Cut-up is the corresponding surgery.

Language is a virus from outer space.

rhymes with

sephirahnetzach

whyNetzach drives on through repetition and rupture — the cut-up is a technique of forcing the loop to break.