ABSTRACT

Before media, before the Internet...there was talk itself. Talk Talk Talk 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.
Contributors include: Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Marjorie Garber, Sherry Turkle.

part Chat One|35 pages

Talking the Talk

chapter 1|11 pages

Just Talking

Tête-à-Tête

chapter 2|21 pages

Dangerous Talk

Phenomenology, Performativity, Cultural Crisis

part Chat Two|83 pages

The Arts of Conversation

chapter 3|12 pages

Dialogue

Antigone, Speech, Performance, Power

chapter 4|13 pages

Idle Talk

Scarcity and Excess in Literary Language

chapter 5|13 pages

“Talk to Me”

Talk Ethics and Erotics

chapter 6|6 pages

The Talking Stage

Drama's Mono-Dialogics

chapter 7|11 pages

The Talkie

Early Cinematic Conversations

chapter 8|9 pages

Nothing Goes without Saying

The Marx Brothers' Immigrant Talk

chapter 9|14 pages

Spritzing, Skirting

Standup Talk Strategies

part Chat Three|127 pages

Culture Klatch

chapter 10|26 pages

(Quotation Marks)

chapter 11|16 pages

Talking to the Animals

chapter 12|18 pages

Satan and Sybil

Talk, Possession, and Dissociation

chapter 13|10 pages

The Talking Cure

Origins of Psychoanalylysic

chapter 14|12 pages

What to Say when You Talk to Yourself

The Tower of Psychobabble

chapter 15|15 pages

Hearsay Booked

Fugitive Talk Brought to Justice

chapter 17|21 pages

TechnoTalk

E-Mail, the Internet, and Other “Compversations”