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Acknowledgments, p.ix -- List of Images, p.xi -- Introduction:Metabolism and Immortality, p.1 --I.A PROJECT FOR UNDERSTANDING ARTAUD, p.9 --The matter of theory: updating 'cosmos=chaos', p.12 --Artaud's difference: sense and signification, p.21 --Artaud's glossolalia: a user's guide, p.23 --The yoga of the scream, p.27 --The 'figural' and the language of the body, p.33 --The revelation of how the 'hieroglyph' works in Artaud's film scenarios, p.39 --The persistence of myth: Artaud the mystic without mysticism, the shaman without community, p.44 --II.IN THE LAND OF THE TARAHUMARAS, p.55 --Artaud on ancient Mayan hieroglyphs: the 'Space where Life dies', p.56 --Explaining 'occult geometry': Artaud's art criticism, p.59 --The visit to the Tarahumaras, p.71 --Interpreting the Tarahumara rites, p.76 --'Stopping the world': Artaud's double, triple worlds, p.82 --Touching the outside, p.90 --III.RITUAL ACTS, p.101 --Maps of the 'unconscious', p.103 --Putting 'time back on track', p.108 --The body is the operator, p.110 --The conflict of the faculties, p.116 --The case of Artaud's 'Tutuguri' (1948), p.119 --The space of Artaud's apocalypse, p.128 IV.TRANSFORMING RITUAL ACTS, p.133 --Casting spells, p.133 --Artaud's apocalypse as initiation, or 'complete voyage', p.141 --The world of sorcery as 'permanent liminality', p.146 --Artaud and Jesus Christ, p.148 --The cross and the crossroads, redux, p.152 --The 'universal' cross: enter Guenon, p.156 --Artaud's The New Revelations of Being (1937), p.159 --The cross as a test of rhythm, p.164 --V.HIEROGLYPHICS AS PASSAGE, p.167 --Artaud's becoming versus being, p.168 --The fulcrum of the Cross: Artaud's 'Gnostic' delirium, p.173 --Artaud begins his re-formation: the cross and the sexuality of the 'true body', p.179 --The 'search for fecality' in the creation of the new body, p.184 --The cross is the pivot in this creation of the 'true body', p.187 --The full 'body without organs' emerges, p.190 --Artaud's 'cure', p.197 --VI.THE FRACTURING OF THE VOID AND THE EXPLODING HIEROGYLPH, p.207 --The spherical body, p.209 --Artaud's 1947-8 notebooks: the combustion of hieroglyphics, p.210 --The opening to animism: the 'body without organs' as mythic autoreference, p.221 --Artaud on Van Gogh: the totem and the implosion of the hieroglyphic figure, p.225 --Derrida's Artaud: the vicissitudes of the 'subjectile', p.228 --Artaud's 'graphic cruelties': the face of the void, p.234 --The voice at the end of the world: the final sound works, p.245 -- Conclusion:ERASING THE LINE, p.257 --Artaud's subversion of hieroglyphics, p.258 --Artaud in the 21st century: the 'present body', p.262 --WORKS CONSULTED, p.273 -- Archives, p.273 -- Bibliography, p.273 -- Exhibitions, p.292 -- Filmography, p.293 -- Online Resources, p.294.
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