Marcus Boon
[UK/CA]
Marcus Boon teaches contemporary literature and cultural theory at York University in Toronto. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002), In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010), and co-author with Timothy Morton and Eric Cazdyn of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (U. Chicago, Forthcoming).
Boon edited Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems of John Giorno (Soft Skull, 2008) and is currently working on a new edition of William S. Burroughs' The Third Mind with Davis Schneiderman. He writes about music and sound for The Wire, collaborates on vibrational environments and installations with Christie Pearson as THEWAVES, and is currently working on a book entitled The Politics of Vibration.
