William S. Burroughs,
Blue Muny, c. 1990
Acrylic on paper
on sale at Artsy

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/william-s-burroughs-blue-muny
#williamburroughs #acrylic #burroughs #painting #auction

Cuando Charles Bukowski y William S. Burroughs parecen Boys Scouts --> Isidore Ducasse

#Bukowski #Burroughs #Ducasse #suciedad #mugre #punk

Me voici pour la 2ème fois à l’assaut de "Naked Lunch" (William .S. #burroughs Penguin, 2015 [1959], contemplant, déconfit et rageur, l’abysse qui sépare la bonne connaissance d’une langue de l'intimité avec une culture, a fortiori celle de la contre-culture beatnik des années 50, de sa dépendance aux drogues, à l’alcool, au sexe, à la recherche (désespérée ?) d’un « ailleurs » que traduit une littérature (vocabulaire, syntaxe, construction) tellement « autre ». Burroughs (le dynamiteur), #Ginsberg (le politique manipulateur), #Kerouac (le poète)… Puis-je encore les comprendre (et les aimer ?) quand le monde dans lequel je vis est si différent du leur?

This is the best book on Burroughs computers

https://dn720004.ca.archive.org/0/items/computer-system-organization-b-5700-b-6700-series/Computer%20System%20Organization%20B5700-B6700%20Series%20by%20Elliott%20I.%20Organick%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf

#burroughs #algol

Burroughs perfected the computer language Algol, on the stack, unbreakable, like their hand-cranked calculator, all in open source.

People submitted patches, via C.U.B.E (Cooperative Users of Burroughs Equipment) group meetings on nine track reel tapes. And yes, I used to patch the Operating System, called MCP (Master Computing Program.

Then, imagine my surprise when this popped up:
https://algol-for-linux.com/

ugh... on April 1st...

#burroughs #algol #linux

A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Energy’s plan to ⚠️cap universities’ indirect research cost reimbursement rates,
pending a hearing in the ongoing lawsuit filed by several higher education associations and universities.
Judge #Allison D. #Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts wrote in the brief Wednesday order that
👉the plaintiffs had shown that, without a temporary restraining order, “they will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”
Plaintiffs include the Association of American Universities,
the American Council on Education,
the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
and nine individual universities, including
Brown, Cornell and Princeton Universities
and the Universities of Michigan, Illinois and Rochester.
They sued the DOE and department secretary Chris Wright on Monday, three days after the DOE announced its plan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/18/judge-blocks-energy-dept-plan-cap-indirect-cost-rates

Explore William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique! ✂️ He discovered it in 1959, revolutionizing writing by rearranging text for fresh perspectives. Authors can use this method to create unique combinations and meanings. Learn more! 📚🔗 #CreativeWriting #Burroughs #CutUpTechnique
https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/william-s-burroughs-cut-ups.php

cutup of cutups / differx. 2024 _ from burroughs/balch

slowforward.net/2024/08/02/cut…

#differx #cutup #cutups #williamburroughs #burroughs #balch #anthonybalch

cutup of cutups / differx. 2024 _ from burroughs/balch

https://slowforward.net/2024/08/02/cutup-of-cutups-differx-2024-_-from-burroughs-balch/

#differx #cutup #cutups #williamburroughs #burroughs #balch #anthonybalch

https://ledibbouk.net/spip.php?article743
#fictions #littérature #Burroughs

Marianne Faithful on William S. Burroughs:

"I was a big fan of his books, and read them all when they came out. I read Naked Lunch when I was very young and thought it was telling people to go out and get high. I've just reread it, though, and realised it's the opposite. It's an anti-drug book. What is striking is that all his visions and prophecies, all the new drugs that hadn't been invented when he was writing Naked Lunch, came true. He hit the nail on the head. I last read it again a few weeks ago and the book is by no means a period piece. It's still terrifying. The last thing Naked Lunch is about is drugs - they are just a sidebar. But that is how people come to Burroughs. They think he was about that one thing, but he went much further than that. What he did in his personal life and what he is as an artist are quite different."

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/features/story/0,,1214564,00.html

#Burroughs

William Seward #Burroughs, born OTD in 1857, grandfather of the author, invented the first successful adding machine in the United States, he did not leave a vast fortune to his descendants https://toilet-guru.com/wsb-sewers.html?s=mb #WSB #WSBurroughs #travel

William Seward Burroughs I, founder of #Burroughs Corporation and grandfather of the author, was born OTD in 1855 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-w-s-burroughs/?s=mb #travel #WSBurroughs

Burroughs 101
This American Life host Ira Glass was never into William Burroughs. Didn't get why people love his writing so much. Then he heard this radio story that changed all that, partly because it wasn't very reverential about Burroughs. For Burroughs 101st birthday, we hear that story.

Iggy Pop, the documentary's narrator, begins by listing some of the artists and artistic movements influenced by Burroughs: Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Steely Dan, Kurt Cobain, Lou Reed; punk, heavy metal. We hear from director John Waters on the impact on him of Burroughs' open homosexuality and frankness about sex. Others talk about Burroughs' heroin addiction and obsession with guns and weapons. Burroughs shot his wife to death in what he said was a terrible accident.

#Burroughs #BeatGeneration #Interzone

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/546/burroughs-101

DECODER (1984)

A burger shop employee (FM Einheit from German industrial band 'Einstürzende Neubauten'!) discovers hidden hypnotic frequencies in pleasant restaurant background music, alters them (after William S Burroughs tells him how to do it in a dream) and incites a revolution against a dark, dystopian regime. His girlfriend (played by 80s icon Christiane F) helps him with her frog collection. Oh yeah... and Genesis P-Orridge from Throbbing Gristle helps him on his mission too with some magick.

https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2023/01/decoder-1984.html

#Burroughs #IndustrialMusic #Occult

Dial-A-Poem Poets: Radicalizing space with the telephone

https://medium.com/p/bfb50cd8f36c

#Tape #Poetry #Beat #Burroughs

'THE MOON AND SERPENT BUMPER BOOK OF MAGIC' by Alan Moore and (no relation) Steve Moore. Among its many comic-book / kid's annual-themed features is a recurring strip "Old Moores' Lives of the Great Enchanters" - which mostly features the predictable likes of Hermes Trismegistus, Simon Magus, through Agrippa and John Dee to, yes, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, etc. - but at No. 47, cunningly re-titled by Cut-Up "Old Moores' Livers of the Enoch Anteaters," we find WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, complete with depictions of the shooting of Joan, Brion Gysin & the Dreamachine, and the sweat-lodge exorcism of the Ugly Spirit! (Oh, and a centipede.)

#Burroughs

Queer interview: Snappy interview with Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig about the new movie
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/11/sexuality-is-as-individual-as-a-fingerprint-daniel-craig-and-luca-guadagnino-on-queer?CMP=share_btn_url
#danielcraig #burroughs #queerbait #snowball #movies #queer #lgbt #gay