"[from Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan, New York: 1978, Henry Holt]: . . .[in 1978] a Columbia professor named Sylvere Lotringer had approached John Giorno about organizing some sort of 'homage to Burroughs,' bringing together European and American academics for a series of seminars. Lotringer saw Burroughs as they did in France, where he was acclaimed as a philosopher of the future, the man who best understood postindustrial society. Giorno discussed the idea with James [Grauerholz], and they saw it more as the gathering of the counterculture tribe which would enshrine Burroughs as its leader. There would be seminars, but there would also be music and entertainment, and star attractions."
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