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1992 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

When Words Become Flesh and Flesh Becomes Words an Editor’s Preface

Author : Stephen Pfohl

Published in: Death at the Parasite Cafe

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

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I am burning like Baghdad or Detroit on “Devil’s Night” to tell a story of the postmodern. Not simply a story of a genre of art, architecture, or literary engagement, but a story of the dense and high velocity techno-structuring of the society in which I find myself (k)notted in a complex network of relations to others. This is a sociological story to counter-memorize or countermand what I take to be an emerging terroristic social formation in HIStory—a new American empire of the senseless. Although this story passes through my body, it is not mine alone. Nor am I entirely by myself in the re(w)ritings that become this text. No parasite is. Repeatedly.

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Title
When Words Become Flesh and Flesh Becomes Words an Editor’s Preface
Author
Stephen Pfohl
Copyright Year
1992
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22129-5_1