Talks · 23 Mar 2024SAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI- 36:27Met in Tangier: the heroin addict thinks only of stealing enough to pay for his dose, proof of the power of opium.
Burroughs
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Who is this?William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a postmodern author who influenced underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. […]
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Talks · 23 Mar 2024SAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI
Season 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 34:55A Beat generation writer he knew in Tangier.
Season 6 · 30 Jan 2020#6.4 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 20:49Beat Generation writer who passed through King Idris's Libya: "flies."