William S. Burroughs

In this course

Burroughs appears here as a theorist of language control and resistant techniques—his *Electronic Revolution* proposes tactical interventions against what he calls "mental manipulation" and the managed circulation of meaning through media systems. The course readings invoke him to historicize contemporary concerns about information control and surveillance, positioning his mid-century experiments with cut-up techniques and sound as precursors to modern obfuscation and privacy strategies. His work enables thinking about how artistic and textual disruption might operate as forms of political struggle within systems designed to regulate communication.

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