{"product_id":"cephalonegativity-on-the-theater-of-decapitation-paperback-2","title":"Cephalonegativity: On the Theater of Decapitation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Corrao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEvan Isoline\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fully exploiting the Gogolesque conceit of a cephalophore whose body and head go their own separate ways, Cephalonegativity reads like Beckett's Play (with M reprised as an even more slippery version of himself) or Not I as if performed by the secret society of Acéphale. Archaic turns of phrase and elision combine with post-cinematic headlessness to produce a stage play that plays with stages and stages play, a lesescenario from the velveteen tongue of an heretical zealot, its phrases as if slurped up off an abattoir floor, or off the rotted walls of a theatre-cum-poisoned-amniotic-sac where the performers have all become kuroko. Read out loud, at speed, in honour of its progenitors, the words turn into \"chunks of hot pomegranate meat\" in your mouth-turned-anus, with your gills agape, your mutinous soma exsanguinated, levitating above you, your head on fire singing like litel clergeon from the catacombs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-​Gary J. Shipley, author of 30 Fake Beheadings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In pursuing a theatrical treatment of the Self's head and body and self-selves, through a Bataillean notion of headlessness, through typographical humor and rupture, through a Dada-esque document of volatile mirror-pages and chorus, Cephalonegativity makes of itself a gaping gesture: a neck-stub that is a mouth that is singing out and commenting on the ritual of being present. The reader dials in via \"a rotary anus\" and watches a body hanging as a tail in its coprolalic spooky plastic underwater gloom psychedelia cum outer space inside of a mouth cum cult orgy. \"DO\/ YOU SEE THE END OF TIME? THE APPROACHING\/ WALL? WHEN THE THEATRICAL BECOMES THE\/ APOCALYPTIC? ENACTING A DISTORTED REALI-\/ TY AS THIN LAYERS OVER THIS ONE?\" This text is a porous fabric through which we might perform the wound of the stage as we watch it rot.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-​Olivia Cronk, author of Womonster\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7 x 4.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47576818745565,"sku":"9781954899032","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/dEJKbjgzREE1Ky9nY3dtcEJLWnpwQT09_6af97042-3121-4ae6-84ac-2219f28930e2.webp?v=1773467828","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/cephalonegativity-on-the-theater-of-decapitation-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}