The Posthuman Dada Guide:

[malignd at aol.com]

See also Stoppard's Travesties.

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
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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