1st Edition

Dada as Text, Thought and Theory

By Stephen Forcer Copyright 2015
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book aims to show new ways in which Dada explains itself, and that Dada, in turn, can help to animate and expand debates about a diverse range of other fields including poetics, psychoanalysis, ethics, semantics, intellectual history and science.

    Introduction: Down with Subversion 1. Decoding Dada: Women Dada Poets and Homosocial Dada 2. The Madman Next Door: Tristan Tzara and Jacques Lacan 3. Being, Being Better, and the Importance of Nothingness: Dada, Buddhism, Living 4. Uncertainty, on Principle: Dada, Science and Critical Theory 5. Conclusion

    Biography

    Stephen Forcer