The Posthuman Dada Guide - tzara and lenin play chess
Andrei CodrescuHow much do you like this book?
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"This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life.",The Posthuman Dada Guide The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world,all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich's Café de la Terrasse,a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution,lasted for a century and may still be going on, although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are playing for the world. Taking the match as metaphor for two poles of twentieth- and twenty-first-century thought, politics, and life, Andrei Codrescu has created his own brilliantly Dadaesque guide to Dada,and to what it can teach us about surviving our ultraconnected present and future. Here dadaists Duchamp, Ball, and von Freytag-Loringhoven and communists Trotsky, Radek, and Zinoviev appear live in company with later incarnations, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gilles Deleuze, and Newt Gingrich. The Posthuman Dada Guide is arranged alphabetically for q
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Year:
2009
Edition:
Kindle
Publisher:
Independely Published
Language:
english
Pages:
248
ISBN 10:
0691137781
ISBN 13:
9780691137780
Series:
The Public Square
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PDF, 707 KB
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CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2009
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