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Despite being one of the most influential artists and writers of the mid-20th Century, Antonin Artaud's voice remains inadequately deciphered. Artaud's Metamorphosis is the first book on the transformation from his 'early' to 'late' work, and it shows how the 'final' Artaud leads straight into our digital present. This Artaud will alter how you think of media, the virtual, the political, and thought itself.

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'Only after reading Jay Murphy's beautifully crafted, thought-provoking, scholarly yet light fingered, account did I become aware of the crucial role the benighted Artaud plays in capitalism-and-schizophrenia. Murphy is a most wonderful guide to the madness that is our voyage through reality as a body without organs.' Michael Taussig, Columbia University 'Jay Murphy's book excels as a forensic investigation of the continuing explosion that was Artaud. It collects the traces left by his devastating passage through poetry, art, politics, philosophy, film and theatre and shows how Artaud's war unto eternity pushed him beyonds the limits of the hieroglyph towards the body without organs. Lucid without compromising the darkness of Artaud's suffering, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the madness of the 20th and 21st centuries.' Howard Caygill, Kingston University 'There is in Artaud a high velocity veering composed of lucidity and imaginative derangement. To figure out what he is really about is an extraordinary challenge. The most important aspect of Murphy's contribution is his awareness that Artaud's bizarre images and propositions carry visionary components relative to virtuality and digitality and may also address new relations of time, space, body and awareness. Such work indicates sophistication in reading Artaud that is far from the American 1960s attitude toward him.' Clayton Eshleman, Eastern Michigan University

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