For this reading we look at the easily downloadable Howl (1956) and William Burroughs The Job. The Job is something to dip in to rather than read solidly, the structure of Burroughs thought being not unlike poetry itself. Here the interview structure helps us understand a hugely complex personality. Margaret Thatcher once said there was no such thing as society, there were only individuals and family. She announced this as she became prime minister in the seventies.
It's interesting that she felt pushed to make such a statement, and if we hold it in our mind, and consider the political thought and popular movements of the preceding twenty years, all may become clear. We shall be considering especially our literal and metaphorical appreciation of the machine and the consequences of a breakdown in social order that created the 'swinging sixties'. In architecture this might be illustrated in the rather different work of Archigram and Superstudio.
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