The Posthuman Dada Guide:

[Dave Monroe]

The Posthuman Dada Guide:
tzara and lenin play chess
Andrei Codrescu
Paper with French folds | 2009 | $16.95 / £9.95
248 pp. | 4 x 8


"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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A Q&A with author Andrei Codrescu

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