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Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

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Availability:In StockContributor:McKenzie WarkPublish date:2021-09-28Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478014683ISBN-10:1478014687UPC:9781478014683Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:Transgender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCE5FQD0B1
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478014683ISBN-10:1478014687UPC:9781478014683Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:Transgender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCE5FQD0B1
McKenzie Wark is Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College at The New School and author of several books, including Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century, Reverse Cowgirl, and Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? Her correspondence with Kathy Acker was published as I'm Very Into You.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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