Semiotext(e), Volume 4, Number 1 ("Polysexuality"), 1981

Burroughs contributes "The Popling", pp. 119-124.

This was published in New York City by Semiotext(e) in 1981.

This copy was acquired from Magus Books (Seattle, WA.).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf II.168
• Schottlaender v4.C506, v5.C525
• Raven 19810000SEMI.4.1

Contents:

• François Peraldi: introduction
• Pierre Guyotat: "Body of the Text" (prose, translated by Catherine Duncan)
• Daniel Sloate:
• "I Struggled with a Demon" (poetry)
• "Polly or/and Paul" (prose)
• "Trudy or the Secret Aphid" (prose)
• Demetrius Zambaco: "Onanism and Nervous Disorders in Two Little Girls: Case History" (translated by Catherine Duncan)
• Pierre Klossowski:
• "Roberte's Diary (continued)" (prose, translated by Catherine Duncan)
• "Sequence of the Parallel Bars" (prose/list, translated by Catherine Duncan)
• Roger Callois: "The Octopus in Japan" (essay, translated by Linda McNeil and Margaret McGaw)
• Paul Verlaine:
• "On the Balcony" (poetry, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• "A Little Shit" (poetry, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• Duncan H. Smith: "Memoirs of an Occupation" (prose)
• Jean Pouillon: "Table Manners, Bed Manners, Language Manners" (essay)
• Logaijui: "Appendix (to Jean Pouillon's essay)" (letter, translated by P. Zoberman)
• Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud: "The Sonnet of the Hole in the Ass" (poetry, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• Terence C. Sellers: "Coprophagy and Urinology" (script)
• Michel Bernard: "The Mute Negress" (prose, translated by Richard Gardner)
• Alain Robbe-Grillet: "Temple through the Looking Glass" (prose, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• Felix Guattari:
• "I Have Even Met Happy Travelos" (essay, translated by Rachel McComas)
• "Becoming-Woman" (essay, translated by Rachel McComas and Stamos Metzidakis)
• Jean François Lyotard: "Use Me" (essay, translated by Michel Feher and Tom Gora)
• Frederic Rossif: "The Wild Celebration" (interview, translated by Stamos Metzidakis)
• Catherine Duncan: "Journeys of a Gentlewoman" (prose)
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari:
• "A Bloated Oedipus" (essay, translated by Rachel McComas)
• "How to Make Yourself a Body Without Organs" (essay, translated by Suzanne Guerlac)
• Bernard Noel: "The Dogs" (prose, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• Peter Wilson: "The Silver Pipe Café" (prose)
• Tony Duvert: "Countess Lulu" (prose)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Popling" (prose)
• Roger Moody: "The Committal" (prose)
• Georges Bataille: "The Culprit" (prose, translated by Tom Gora)
• Anonymous: "My Late Grandmother"(prose, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• Pierre Benichou: "Saint Jackie, Comedienne and Torturer" (prose, translated by Charles Clark)
• Michel de Muzan: "M" (prose, translated by Daniel Sloate)
• François Peraldi: "Postface: Violence and Sexuality" (essay)
• John Preston:
• "Once I Had a Master" (prose)
• "Letter to Jason" (prose)
• Jason Klein: "Chorus for a Psalm" (prose)
• Jacques Lacan:
• "The Oedipus Complex" (essay, translated by Andrea Kahn)
• "Saint Anne ... 1972" (essay, translated by Denise Green)
• Various: "Do You Know Correct Terms for What Some may Call 'Sex Perversions'" (questionnaire)
• Roland Barthes:
• "Vocabulary" (essay)
• "Fragments of a Lover's Discourse" (interview, translated by Catherine Duncan)
• Chantal Maillet and Sylvie Leger: "Jouissance and Division" (essay, translated by Terese Lyons)
• Michele Montrelay: "Inquiry into Femininity" (essay, translated by Parveen Adams)
• Paul Virilio: "Moving Girl" (essay, translated nu John Johnston)
• Robert van Roden Allen: "Discourse and Sexuality: Toward the Texture of Eros" (essay)
• Guy Hocquenghem: "To Destroy Sexuality..." (essay, translated by Tom Gora)
• Mister Marguiles: "Frontiers Broken" (quote)
• Sylvère Lotringer: "Defunkt Sex" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Special Editor: François Peraldi
• Associate Editors: Katheryn Bigelow, Denise Green, Sylvère Lotringer
• Design/Illustration: Katheryn Bigelow, Denise Green, François Peraldi
• Visuals: Honcho, The New York Post, Michael Oblowitz
• Translation Editors: Thomas Gora, Roger McKeon, Daniel Sloate
• Back Cover: Michael Oblowitz
• General Editor: Sylvère Lotringer
• Managing Editor: Jim Fleming
• Editorial Committee: Denise Green, Denis Hollier, Sylvère Lotringer, Roger McKeon, John Rajchman, Pat Steir
• Associate Editor: Lee Hildreth
• Editorial Assistant: Brewster Joy
• Design Editor: Gil Eisner
• et al