Language:
English
Pages:
202 Seiten ;
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23 cm.
Parallel Title:
Online version Wark, McKenzie, 1961- Philosophy for spiders
Keywords:
Acker, Kathy / 1948-1997 / Criticism and interpretation
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Wark, McKenzie / 1961-
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Acker, Kathy / 1948-1997
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Wark, McKenzie / 1961-
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Experimental fiction, American / History and criticism
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Feminist fiction, American / History and criticism
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Postmodernism (Literature) / United States
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Feminist literary criticism
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Gender identity in literature
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Sex role in literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Transgender Studies
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Experimental fiction, American
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Feminist fiction, American
;
Feminist literary criticism
;
Gender identity in literature
;
Postmodernism (Literature)
;
Sex role in literature
;
United States
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I: The City of Memory. The first resort -- Bestiary -- Woolloomooloo -- Laurel -- I'm very into you -- San Francisco -- The concept of the body -- Body and body : Flesh -- Dildocentrism -- Kathy's girl, in and out -- Further outings -- Wardrobe -- Transitive -- Mouth of truth -- New York -- Bridge and tunnel -- Topping (1) -- Topping (2) -- Noise -- Memory is redundant -- The viewing room -- New York, -- Part II: A philosophy for spiders. Null philosophy -- Spiders -- Philosophy -- Selving -- Wonder -- Writing -- First philosophy -- Exteriority -- Emotions -- Memory -- Time -- Narrative -- Eye -- Boredom -- Solitude -- Dreams -- Imagination -- Body-work -- Masturbation -- Handwriting -- Second philosophy -- Inheritance -- Fathers -- Mothers -- Library -- Desire -- Sex -- Penetration -- Misandry -- Rape -- Masochism -- Women -- Engendering -- Love -- Death -- Third philosophy -- Cities -- Sex-work -- Art-work -- Fame-work -- Capitalism -- Post-capitalism -- History -- Politics -- Culture -- Agency -- Girls -- Revolution -- Holes -- Fiction -- Détournement -- Myth -- Nature -- Dysphoric afterword -- Chorus
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