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Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

Wark, McKenzie

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Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker
Author: Wark, McKenzie
Subjects: Experimental fiction, American ; Feminist fiction, American ; Feminist literary criticism ; Gay & Lesbian ; Gender identity in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Sex role in literature
Description: It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker. Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works. Wark finds not just an inventive writer of fiction who pressed against the boundaries of gender but a theorist whose comprehensive philosophy of life brings a conceptual intelligence to the everyday life of those usually excluded from philosophy's purview. As Wark shows, Acker's engagement with topics such as masturbation, sadism, body- building, and penetrative sex are central to her distinct phenomenology of the body that theorizes the body's relation to others, the city, and technology.
Publisher: Durham: Duke University Press
Creation Date: 2021
Format: 212
Language: English

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