Utopia's debris : selected essays / by Gary Indiana.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2008Description: 315 pages 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780465002481 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3559.N335 U86 2008
Contents:
Desertshore. Barbara Kruger: the war at home -- Kindergarten governor -- Murdering the dead -- Pretty vacant -- Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): the goodbye person -- The infernal evidence. Even cowboys get the blues -- The madness of the day -- Testosterone express -- Homicide can be such a drag -- About Mary Woronov: puzzle-headed woman -- Daniel Schmid's La paloma -- William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) -- That awful mess at the governor's mansion -- Surrealisms and the power of emotion. Of Caroline Blackwood -- Wurlitzer's wiles -- Bulle Ogier, phenomenon without a pause -- Cunning, exile, contingency -- Germany inside him: Rainer Fassbinder and the spell of dystopia -- Vienna III, kundmanngasse 19 -- Major motifs -- Curzio Malaparte -- Conjuror of St Germain -- Emmanuel Carrère's counterfeiters -- And the fog comes rolling in. The excremental republic -- Überdolls -- The gearworks of doom -- Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn -- Sublime pariah: Céline's voyages into the whirlwind -- Amnesia and its double -- Blame it on brio -- No such thing as paranoia: on the culture of conspiracism -- Opus heyday -- Disorganized conspiracy -- Utopia's debris. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's advocate -- Susan Sontag (1933-2004) -- Robert Bresson: hidden in plain sight -- Simenon l'incroyable -- Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny.
Summary: Desertshore. Barbara Kruger: the war at home -- Kindergarten governor -- Murdering the dead -- Pretty vacant -- Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): the goodbye person -- The infernal evidence. Even cowboys get the blues -- The madness of the day -- Testosterone express -- Homicide can be such a drag -- About Mary Woronov: puzzle-headed woman -- Daniel Schmid's La paloma -- William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) -- That awful mess at the governor's mansion -- Surrealisms and the power of emotion. Of Caroline Blackwood -- Wurlitzer's wiles -- Bulle Ogier, phenomenon without a pause -- Cunning, exile, contingency -- Germany inside him: Rainer Fassbinder and the spell of dystopia -- Vienna III, kundmanngasse 19 -- Major motifs -- Curzio Malaparte -- Conjuror of St Germain -- Emmanuel Carrère's counterfeiters -- And the fog comes rolling in. The excremental republic -- Überdolls -- The gearworks of doom -- Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn -- Sublime pariah: Céline's voyages into the whirlwind -- Amnesia and its double -- Blame it on brio -- No such thing as paranoia: on the culture of conspiracism -- Opus heyday -- Disorganized conspiracy -- Utopia's debris. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's advocate -- Susan Sontag (1933-2004) -- Robert Bresson: hidden in plain sight -- Simenon l'incroyable -- Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny
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Consists of articles and essays mainly written between 1996 and 2008.

Desertshore. Barbara Kruger: the war at home -- Kindergarten governor -- Murdering the dead -- Pretty vacant -- Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): the goodbye person -- The infernal evidence. Even cowboys get the blues -- The madness of the day -- Testosterone express -- Homicide can be such a drag -- About Mary Woronov: puzzle-headed woman -- Daniel Schmid's La paloma -- William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) -- That awful mess at the governor's mansion -- Surrealisms and the power of emotion. Of Caroline Blackwood -- Wurlitzer's wiles -- Bulle Ogier, phenomenon without a pause -- Cunning, exile, contingency -- Germany inside him: Rainer Fassbinder and the spell of dystopia -- Vienna III, kundmanngasse 19 -- Major motifs -- Curzio Malaparte -- Conjuror of St Germain -- Emmanuel Carrère's counterfeiters -- And the fog comes rolling in. The excremental republic -- Überdolls -- The gearworks of doom -- Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn -- Sublime pariah: Céline's voyages into the whirlwind -- Amnesia and its double -- Blame it on brio -- No such thing as paranoia: on the culture of conspiracism -- Opus heyday -- Disorganized conspiracy -- Utopia's debris. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's advocate -- Susan Sontag (1933-2004) -- Robert Bresson: hidden in plain sight -- Simenon l'incroyable -- Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny.

Desertshore. Barbara Kruger: the war at home -- Kindergarten governor -- Murdering the dead -- Pretty vacant -- Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): the goodbye person -- The infernal evidence. Even cowboys get the blues -- The madness of the day -- Testosterone express -- Homicide can be such a drag -- About Mary Woronov: puzzle-headed woman -- Daniel Schmid's La paloma -- William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) -- That awful mess at the governor's mansion -- Surrealisms and the power of emotion. Of Caroline Blackwood -- Wurlitzer's wiles -- Bulle Ogier, phenomenon without a pause -- Cunning, exile, contingency -- Germany inside him: Rainer Fassbinder and the spell of dystopia -- Vienna III, kundmanngasse 19 -- Major motifs -- Curzio Malaparte -- Conjuror of St Germain -- Emmanuel Carrère's counterfeiters -- And the fog comes rolling in. The excremental republic -- Überdolls -- The gearworks of doom -- Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn -- Sublime pariah: Céline's voyages into the whirlwind -- Amnesia and its double -- Blame it on brio -- No such thing as paranoia: on the culture of conspiracism -- Opus heyday -- Disorganized conspiracy -- Utopia's debris. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's advocate -- Susan Sontag (1933-2004) -- Robert Bresson: hidden in plain sight -- Simenon l'incroyable -- Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny

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