Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker (Paperback)
Paperback 216 pages English 28-Sep-21
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Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker (Paperback)
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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.
- Author:
- McKenzie Wark
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press Books
- Publication Date:
- 28-Sep-21
- Number of pages:
- 216 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1478014687
- ISBN-13:
- 9781478014683