The Exquisite Corpse

List of Illustrations  

Foreword: Totems without Taboos: The Exquisite Corpse

Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky

Acknowledgments  

Introduction: The Algorhythms of the Exquisite Corpse

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger

Part One: The Ludic

1. From One Exquisite Corpse (in)to Another: Influences and Transformations from Early to Late Surrealist Games  

Anne M. Kern

2. "This is Not a Drawing"   

Susan Laxton

3. Events and the Exquisite Corpse 

Ken Friedman

4. Cutting Up the Corpse     

Oliver Harris

Part Two: Artistic Collectivity and Literary Creation

5. The Corpse Encore/Apres Exquis  

Ingrid Schaffner (with a contribution by Elizabeth Finch)

6. The Exquisite Corpse Is Alive and Well and Living in Montréal 

Ray Ellenwood

7. An Anatomy of Alfred Chester's Exquisite Corpse   

Allen Hibbard

8. "together in their dis-harmony": Internet Collaboration and Le Cadavre Exquis   

Michael Joyce

Part Three: Academia

9. Academia's Exquisite Corpse: An Ethnography of the Application Process    

Craig Saper

10. Dead Men Don't Wear Pixels: The Online Exquisite Corpse and Process-based Institutional Critique   

Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denlinger

Part Four: Recomposing the Body

11. Exquisite Theater  

Kimberly Jannarone

12. Howling: The Exquisite Corpse, Butoh, and the Disarticulation of Trauma  

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

13. "You Make Such an Exquisite Corpse": Surrealist Collaboration and the Transcendence of Gender in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Don Dingledine

Works Cited

Contributors     

Index