Philosophy for spiders : on the low theory of Kathy Acker /

Philosophy for spiders : on the low theory of Kathy Acker /

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Author / Creator:	Wark, McKenzie, 1961- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	202 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Acker, Kathy, -- 1948-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation. Wark, McKenzie, -- 1961- Acker, Kathy, -- 1948-1997. Wark, McKenzie, -- 1961- Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism. Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism. Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States. Feminist literary criticism. Gender identity in literature. Sex role in literature. Experimental fiction, American. Feminist fiction, American. Feminist literary criticism. Gender identity in literature. Postmodernism (Literature) Sex role in literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12635278

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ISBN:	9781478013754 1478013753 9781478014683 1478014687 9781478021988
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (paes [181]-193) and index.
Summary:	"McKenzie Wark combines an autobiographical account of her relationship with Kathy Acker with her transgender reading of Acker's writing to outline Acker's philosophy of embodiment and its importance for theorizing the trans experience"-- "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"--
Other form:	Online version: Wark, McKenzie, 1961- Philosophy for spiders. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. 9781478021988

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