Philosophy for Spiders On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker
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Full Title

Philosophy for Spiders On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker
Author(s)

McKenzie Wark
Edition
ISBN

9781478021988, 9781478014683, 9781478013754
Publisher

Duke University Press Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.

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