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[[File:David Woodard (Seattle, 2013).jpg|thumb|right|Woodard in [[Seattle]], 2013]] '''David Woodard''' (born April 6, 1964 in [[Santa Barbara, California]]) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Postmodernism|postmodern]] [[writer]] and [[Conducting|conductor]].,<ref name="Carpenter">Carpenter, S., [http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/09/news/cl-60944 "In Concert at a Killer's Death"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', May 9, 2001.</ref><ref name="Epstein">Epstein, J., [http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Rebuilding-a-pure-Aryan-home-in-the-Paraguayan-2723542.php "Rebuilding a Home in the Jungle"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', Mar 13, 2005.</ref> and a [[descendant]] of prominent [[History_of_the_United_States#Colonial_America|colonial]] families.<ref>Finnell, A. L., ''The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry: Lineage of Members'' ([[Baltimore]]: Clearfield, 1997), p. 250.</ref>{{rp|250}} He [[Invention|invented]] the [[concept]] and [[portmanteau word]] prequiem, which designates a [[musical composition]] to be rendered as its [[beneficiary]] [[Death|lay dying]].<ref name="Carpenter" /><ref>Rapping, A., [http://www.gettyimages.in/license/569114761 David Woodard] (Seattle: Getty Images, 2001).</ref>

Woodard invented a fictional [[psychoactive]] machine called the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer.<ref>Woodard, D., [http://juniperhills.net/feraliminallycanthropizer.pdf "Feraliminal Lycanthropizer"] ([[San Francisco]]: Plecid Foundation, 1990).</ref> At the end of the [[20th century]] he fabricated replicas of an actual psychoactive device called the Dreamachine.<ref>Allen, M., [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/garden/20mach.html "Décor by Timothy Leary"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', Jan 20, 2005.</ref>

Woodard is also known for his work with Nueva Germania, a [[Human settlement|settlement]] in [[Paraguay]].<ref name="Epstein" /> His [[Germany|German]] book of correspondence ''Five Years'', coauthored by [[Swiss]] novelist Christian Kracht, describes some of the [[humanitarianism|humanitarian work]] performed there.<ref>Kracht, C., & Woodard, [http://www.wehrhahn-verlag.de/index.php?section=abisz&subsection=details&id=577 ''Five Years''] ([[Hanover]]: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011).</ref>​<ref>Riniker, C., "Autorschaftsinszenierung und Diskursstörungen in Christian Krachts und David Woodards ''Five Years'' (2011)," in J. Bolton, et al., eds., ''German Monitor'' 79 ([[Leiden]]: Brill Publishers, 2016).</ref>
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