Mckenzie Wark

Philosophy for Spiders

On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013754
• ISBN-10: 1478013753
• Artikelnr.: 61260917

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The City of Memory  1
Part II. A Philosophy for Spiders  51
Null Philosophy  53
First Philosophy  61
Second Philosophy  81
Third Philosophy  120
Afterword. Dysphoric  169
Acknowledgments  179
Reading List 187
Index  195