Death at the Parasite Cafe: Social Science (Fictions) and the Postmodern

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 2-4
When Words Become Flesh and Flesh Becomes Words an Editor’s Preface....Pages 5-10
Questions of Access and Excess a Translator’s Preface....Pages 11-40
Stupid Fresh Jack Double Density an Author’s Preface....Pages 41-48
My First Confession a Graphic Artist’s Preface....Pages 49-50
Unsingular Beginnings a Copy(w)riter’s Preface....Pages 51-55
Back Matter....Pages 291-291
Front Matter....Pages 56-58
A Story of the Eye/“I” the Parasitism of Postmodern Sociology....Pages 59-104
The Double or No-Thing Social Structuring Rituals and Sacrificial Power....Pages 105-134
Elementary Forms of Ultramodern Social Life Hyper-Primitive Doublings....Pages 135-154
Totems and Taboo Hyper-Narcissism, Death and the Uncanny....Pages 155-208
Infantile Recurrence and Overdevelopment Scenes from World War Three....Pages 209-235
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Front Matter....Pages 236-238
Yuppies from Mars a History of the Present....Pages 239-248
Meta-Voodoo Economics the Materiality of Cybernetic Culture....Pages 249-262
The Orphans’ Revenge Sociological Deconstruction at the Crossroads....Pages 263-289
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