The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2009
Series: Book 2 of 10 - The Public Square
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soft cover, folded card covers, as issued. any signs of handling would be strictly negligible in impact. no flaws or wear. clean, no markings, tight binding.; this copy shows an ink gift inscription signed by the author, dated 08/25/2011 on a blank preliminary page.; 235pp. a title in the public square book series from princeton university press. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
- Author
- Andrei Codrescu
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691137781
- ISBN 13
- 9780691137780
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing.
- Series
- Book 2 of 10: The Public Square
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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 quick reference and (some) nostalgia for order, with entries such as "eros (women)," "internet(s)," and "war." Throughout, it is written in the belief "that posthumans lining the road to the future (which looks as if it exists, after all, even though Dada is against it) need the solace offered by the primal raw energy of Dada and its inhuman sources.
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