Talk Talk Talk

<p>Before media, before the Internet...there was talk itself. <em>Talk Talk Talk</em> is an incisive, exhilarating collection of essays by some of the best thinkers -- and talkers -- of our time. These stellar contributors locate everyday chatter as the basis of a stunning range of artistic and cultural forms: from Antigone's speech-acts to Freud's "talking cure"; from seventeenth-century demon possession to the Marx Brothers' "immigrant talk"; literature, theatre, standup comedy, "ethnic" talk, technologized talk and much, much more.<br>Contributors include: Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Marjorie Garber, Sherry Turkle.</p> Chat One: Talking the Talk 1. Homi Bhabha and Sander L. Gilman Just Talking: Tete-a-Tete 2. S.I. Salamensky Dangerous Talk: Phenomonology, Performativity, Cultural Crisis Chat Two: The Arts of Conversation 3. Judith Butler and Paul Rabinow Dialogue: Antigone, Speech, Performance, Power 4. Alexander Gelley Idle Talk: Scarcity and Excess in Literary Language 5. Carla Kaplan 'Talk to Me': Talk Ethics and Erotics 6. Deborah R. Geis and S.I. Salamensky The Talking Stage: Drama's Mono-Dialogics 7. Tom Conley The Talkie: Early Cinematic Conversations . Stanley Cavell Nothing Goes Without Saying: The Marx Brothers' Immigrant Talk 9. John K. Limon Spritzing, Skirting: Standup Talk Strategies Chat Three: Culture Klatch 10. Marjorie Garber (Qoutation Marks) 11. Alec Irwin Talking to the Animals 12. Steven Connor Satan and Sybil: Talk, Possession, and Dissociation 13. Nicholas Rand The Talking Cure: Origins of Psychoanalysis14. Margaret Bruzelis What to Say when You Talk to Yourself: The Tower of Psychobabble 15. Jan B. Gordon Hearsay Booked: Fugitive Talk Brought to Justice 16. Avital Ronell Talking on the Telephone 17. Sherry Turkle with S. I. Salamensky Technotalk: E-Mail, the Internet, and Other 'Compversations'