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«Puerto de los Santos» (Aristas Martínez, 2025), William S. Burroughs.

William tenía una visión del futuro paralela al punk: esa idea de un grupo de muchachos, de almas andróginas compartiendo visiones afiebradas...».

—Patti Smith

«Nos gustaría desestimar este libro, pero no podemos. A través de sus engranajes brutales resplandecen un ingenio extraño y una integridad a prueba de corrupción, así como una melancolía personal genuina.»

—John Updike

«El término distopía se antoja ridículamente pacífico, e incluso el de fantasía erótica resulta excesivamente reduccionista dada la complejidad del texto. Alegórica visión imaginaria de la historia -o de la política, según se mire- podría resultar más adecuado.»

—J. A. Gurpegui, El Cultural

«Ingenua, despiadada, embrionaria y alucinada, así era la lucidez de Burroughs y así es la luz violenta y eternamente joven que alimenta esta novela.»

—Lucas Martín, La Opinión de Málaga

¡REESCRIBIREMOS TODAS LAS INJUSTICIAS DE LA HISTORIA! ¡MATAREMOS A TODOS LOS CABRONES ANTES DE QUE PUEDAN NACER! Con esta proclama arranca la cruzada de los Chicos Salvajes, un ejército subversivo que lanza su arsenal incendiario contra los Normales: las fuerzas del orden, y el lenguaje y la cultura institucionales. El anhelo juvenil alucinado de sexo y barbarie alberga a su vez una profunda y melancólica exploración autobiográfica en esta novela, una de las pocas obras de ficción de William S.Burroughs que permanecía inédita en español.

‘He identified with the endangered’ … Crazy Man, 1988.

Photograph: Jonathan Greet/© Estate of William S Burroughs

“As someone else said of him, he was a Nostradamus – certainly when it came to climate catastrophe, which he foresaw clearly. He imagined, too, that anyone could achieve inner and outer liberation from the ravages being inflicted on the world. That’s why his art matters to me – and why it’s worth seeing right now.”

William S Burroughs is at the October Gallery, London, until 5 April

"Burroughs was a prolific writer. He also practiced visual art throughout his life. For decades he produced photographs, collages and films. In visual diaries he noted juxtapositions of personal with public events, identifying with those who suffered, later exemplified in paintings Burn Unit and Warhol, A Portrait in TV Dots….In multimedia collaborations with Brion Gysin, they pioneered incisive tools - ‘cut-ups’- to deconstruct mechanisms of institutionalized control systems that corrupt inborn intelligence. On the death of Gysin, he became a painter. In 1987, he began painting every day. Although his literature had been censored in Britain, he lived in London during the late 1960’s and early ‘70s, making strong connections with many noteworthy figures of the British art scene such as Francis Bacon."

This weekend on DC's: 'Fear of Kathy Acker', the Play

Two pioneering forces in industrial and electronic music, Patrick Codenys of Front 242 and Test Dept join forces for a Hybrid DJ Soundclash. A collision of Industrial, EBM, and Sonic Resistance, an intense fusion of rhythm, noise, and revolutionary soundscapes.

A/political and Kendell Geers present the Grand Opening of Everything is True - Nothing is permitted @ Brutus, Rotterdam.

Friday 07/03/25.

Program 7 March:

20:15 - Michel François, Walk Through a Line of Neon Lights

20:45 - Carlos Martiel, New World I

20:50 - Steven Cohen, Taste

21:00 till 23:00 - Test Dept (DJ Set)

21:15 and 22:15 - Mandy El-Sayegh, The Body, in collaboration with movement artist Yuma Sylla

Postponed to March 28 - Kubra Khademi, « The Golden Origine » (ییالط ءاشنم)

22:10 - Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Herz an Herz

22:30 - Maria Metsalu, Improvised performance

In 1966, Daevid Allen asked postmodern author William Burroughs for permission to use the title of his novel The Soft Machine for his new band.

Guest artist David Bradshaw is now at work on an exquisite new series of drawings based on tracings from the original Pat Crawford custom knife that Kurt Cobain gifted to William S. Burroughs on his 1993 visit to Lawrence, KS for an upcoming installation in the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery Annex space. The knife is currently featured in “David BRADSHAW & William S. BURROUGHS: Propagation” at the Rauschenberg Gallery - thru April 12th.

10% File Under Burroughs

My only friend

Marianne Faithfull Master Musicians of Joujouka

(Brion Gysin)

CD1 BEATS: sees the Dance Generation pay homage to the extreme vision of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin

CD2 BEAT: "features Burroughs and his fellow travellers in full flight, recollecting and reinforcing their revolt against society.

A WAY TO DIE - The Films of John Balance and Peter Christopherson

poster art work by Belgian artist Elzo Durte.