Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Marjorie Perloff, Charles Junkerman
  • Overpopulation and art / John Cage
  • "nEw / foRms of living together" : the model of the musicircus / Charles Junkerman
  • "Then not yet C̀age'" : the Los Angeles years, 1912-1938 / Thomas S. Hines
  • "A duchamp unto my self" : "writing through" Marcel / Marjorie Perloff
  • Inventing a tradition : Cage's "composition in retrospect" / Jann Pasler
  • Regulated anarchy : the Europeras and the aesthetics of opera / Herbert Lindenberger
  • Utopian America and the language of Silence / Gordana P. Crnkovic
  • John Cage's approach to the global / Daniel Herwitz
  • Poethics : John Cage and Stanley Cavell at the crossroads of ethical theory / Gerald L. Bruns
  • Chance operations : Cagean paradox and contemporary science / N. Katherine Hayles
  • Poethics of a complex realism / Joan Retallack.