The Posthuman Dada Guide:

[JD]

Thanks for the link, I will probably have to pick up a copy.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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."
>
> http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8846.html
>
> Pages 1 - 16 [HTML] or [PDF]
>
> http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s1_8846.html
> http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s1_8846.pdf
>
> Pages 96 - 109 [HTML] or [PDF]
>
> http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s96_8846.html
> http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s96_8846.pdf
>
> A Q&A with author Andrei Codrescu
>
> http://press.princeton.edu/releases/m8846.html
>
>
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