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After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography by Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e))
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
Acker's life was a fable; and to describe the confusion and love and conflicting agendas behind these memorials would be to sketch an apocryphal allegory of an artistic life in the late twentieth century. It is girls from which stories begin, she wrote in her last notebook. And like other lives, but unl ...Show more
Communal Nude: Collected Essays by Robert Gluck
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible -- relation itself -- in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to "wake up" to the world, to recognize the world, to be convinced that the world exists, to take revenge on the world for not existing. -- from Uncertain Reading Si ...Show more
Cruising the Movies - A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV by Boyd McDonald; William E. Jones
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
A writer casts an acerbic, queer eye on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood's Golden Age. Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient reason to watch John Loves Mary (1949), a picture so ordinaire it needs this bizarre touch. When the faces in this historic still from the Museum of Modern Art ...Show more
Heroines by Kate Zambreno
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order--pretending an objectivity where there is nothing obj ...Show more
Social Practices by Chris Kraus
Category: Culture | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. -- from Social PracticesMixing biography, autobiography, fictio ...Show more
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Li ...Show more
When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Sick Rule the World collects Dodie Bellamy's new and recent lyric prose. Taking on topics as eclectic as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, Bellamy here examines illness, health, and the body -- both the social body and the individual b ...Show more
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