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    Philosophy for Spiders ? On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

    Philosophy for Spiders ? On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by Wark, Mckenzie;

    On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

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    Product details:

    • Publisher MD ? Duke University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 September 2021
    • Number of Volumes Trade Paperback

    • ISBN 9781478014683
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages277 pages
    • Size 229x152x12 mm
    • Weight 316 g
    • Language English
    • 241

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    Short description:

    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.

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    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.

    “In this brilliant reading of one of the late twentieth century's most interesting writers, language ‘messes with flesh’ while ‘logic messes with language,’ transmuting Kathy Acker's sign-worlds into philosophy. I love the fearless way in which McKenzie Wark thinks. I also love the calm voice with which she walks herself (and us) through difficult spaces in theory and memory. Exploring how gender structures writing in ways related to, but ultimately different from, the norms that structure heterosexuality, Philosophy for Spiders radically expands the field of trans girl lit.”

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    Philosophy for Spiders ? On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

    Wark, Mckenzie;

    9 104 HUF

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