A truly pioneering postmodernist, plagiarist and postpunk feminist, Acker continues to inspire generations of writers, philosophers and artists, from her contemporaries such as Dodie Bellamy, Avital Ronell, McKenzie Wark and Chris Kraus to younger writers such as Bhanu Kapil and Olivia Laing.Get Rid of Meaning is the first comprehensive publication to synthesize art and literary perspectives on Acker's work.
Working through a tradition spanning Bataille, Burroughs, Schneemann, French critical theory and pornography, she wrote numerous novels, essays, poems and novellas from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, among them the classics The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, Blood and Guts in High School and In Memoriam to Identity. An essential compendium on the work, life and legacy of the transgressive autofiction pioneerThe American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
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