What does it mean to imagine a body freed from its organs, its history, and its limits? In his final writings, Antonin Artaud turned against Christ, psychiatry, sexuality, and language itself, while elaborating the concept of the “body without organs.” Translator and scholar Stephen Barber joins us to discuss A Sinister Assassin, a collection that gathers together these visionary late texts. Together we explore Artaud’s last visions of theater, delirium, and radical corporeal transformation.

Artaud Books Discussed & Further Reading

• A Sinister Assassin: Antonin Artaud’s Last Writings — Edited, translated, and introduced by Stephen Barber.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/a-sinister-assassin
  
  
• The True Story of Jesus-Christ: Three Notebooks from Ivry — Translated and introduced by Peter Valente.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-jesus-christ
  
  
• Artaud 1937 Apocalypse: Letters from Ireland — The collection of letters from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland, edited & translated by Stephen Barber.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/artaud-1937-apocalypse
  
  
• Obliteration of the World: A Guide to the Occult Belief System of Antonin Artaud — By Peter Valente.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-obliteration-of-the-world
  
  
• The True Story of Artaud-Mômo — A recent edition of Artaud’s lecture / “face-to-face” text from 1947, newly translated and published by Infinity Land Press.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-artaud-m%C3%B4mo

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