Burroughs’ cut-up texts prefigured twenty-first-century media’s emotional manipulation

Evidence

Burroughs’ early cut-up and fold-in texts, with their analysis and decoding of emotional manipulation via media and their understanding of pornography as a control apparatus, now read like extraordinarily prophetic anticipations of the present moment. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1336

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fisher’s earlier treatment of Ballard’s psychoanalytic framing of media and the control-society themes throughout the book. — connects to: Burroughs’s work spans both modernist and postmodern positions simultaneously — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 607