Eat the Word gnaws though the forgotten industrial wastelands of the modern psyche. Each of these short fictional vignettes, deeply visual and evocative in style, are pervaded by a probing intellect that draws on a rich literary palette stretching from Kafka to JG Ballard, from Nietzsche to radical contemporary theorists like Deleuze and Guattari. Robert Lort presents us with a lavish literary buffet, that confronts and beguiles us on every page.

Azimute was a dedicated site for critical essays on, and critical liaisons with, the works of Deleuze and Guattari. In its decade-long span, this rhizome in virtual space attracted nomadic talents and brazen theorists to contribute essays on a wide variety of topics from poetics to capitalism. The website is now defunct, but the works live on in this new compilation. Deleuze-inspired essays on Kathy Acker, Einsturzende Neubaten, Zoviet France, William S. Burroughs, Geoffrey Schmidt, Henri Bergson, pataphysics, and more culminate in this work of exquisite scholarship on the margins.