Essays about: "Burroughs"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Burroughs.

1. 1. Chaos Magick, Discordianism and Internet Trolling : An investigation into subversive postmodern techniques online and offline

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Religionsvetenskap

   Author : Rikard Friberg von Sydow; [2023]
   Keywords : Chaos magick; discordianism; trolling; information society; postmodernity; digital humanities; doxing; William S Burroughs; sigils; memes;

   Abstract : In this thesis, the practice of Chaos magick and the practice and mythology of Discordianism are compared to different subversive techniques used in internet culture and specifically in internet trolling. Chaos magick is described from the sigil-making of Austin Osman Spare through the playbacks of William S Burroughs to contemporary practitioners. READ MORE

3. 2. Changing the Stories We Live By: Revolutionizing the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Through Transformative Conservation

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Tess Marie Burroughs; [2022]
   Keywords : Sustainable Development; Wildlife Conservation; Biodiversity Loss; Critical Discourse Analysis; Transformative Conservation;

   Abstract : As biodiversity continues to diminish worldwide, an interrogation of long-standing conservation discourse is needed to reformulate a new conservation rhetoric that confronts the socio-ecological complexities of the world and reorients the relationship between humans and nature. Using ecologically sensitive critical discourse analysis, this research investigates the dominant ideologies perpetuated within an iteration of mainstream American wildlife discourse and explores opportunities for transformative conservation alternatives. READ MORE

4. 3. Resistance Through Space : A Comparative Study of Narrative and Space in Naked Lunch and On the Road

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Luca Pirro; [2016]
   Keywords : Beat; space; resistance; control; cut-up; travel narrative; Kerouac; Burroughs; Foucault;

   Abstract : This essay compares two influential novels from the Beat era, William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and how they use the spatial dimension of writing as a tool for resistance. The spatiality of Kerouac’s travel narrative is compared to the spatiality of Burroughs cut-up narrative, and the spaces of cities and the road are analyzed. READ MORE

5. 4. “Visibility is a Trap” : Revealing the Metaphor of the Simian in Naked Lunch. 

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Monika Borduz; [2015]
   Keywords : normalization; simian; abnormality; critical animal studies; power mechanisms; Michel Foucault; metaphor; monkey; ape; William S Burroughs; docile body; Naked Lunch; uninhibited human; duality;

   Abstract : Thus far, the novel Naked Lunch has not been discussed from the aspect of critical animal studies, nor has it been connected to the theories of Michel Foucault. This essay however, argues that these diverse fields could be connected through the use of the simians that are frequently employed in Naked Lunch. READ MORE

6. 5. Will To Appear

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Paul Kraus; [2015]
   Keywords : Bret Easton Ellis; American Psycho; Literary Analysis; Critical Analysis; Deleuze; Foucault; Control Society; Discipline; William S. Burroughs; Dante; Augustine; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This paper presents an opportunity for the uncertainty that has plagued the novel's criticism to appear as absences in the body of historical knowledge, particularly regarding the notion of life after death. Taking appearance (eg. READ MORE