Kathy Acker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5120533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Acker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Acker |
| SIGNATURE | ACKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Novelis (Canada) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eurydice in the Underworld
From Puss, King of the Pirates
Seeing gender
The Last Sex
Against Ordinary Language
Obsession
Obsession Kathy Acker My Father Kathy says, For finally my father was coming back. As soon as the night turned black as the cunts of witches, he walked through our door. Once he had settled down inside, with his pint and slippers, the cat nodding drowsily against his shoulder, he told me that he hadn’t brought back what he had promised me, my own whip. Instead he had come back with a non-white brat, outcast, orphan. This devil’s child who was nam…
Kathy Acker interviewed by Rebecca Deaton
Dead Doll Humility
Dead Doll Humility Kathy Acker IN ANY SOCIETY BASED ON CLASS, HUMILIATION IS A POLITICAL REALITY. HUMILIATION IS ONE METHOD BY WHICH POLITICAL POWER IS TRANSFORMED INTO SOCIAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. THE PERSONAL INTERIORIZATION OF THE PRACTICE OF HUMILIATION IS CALLED HUMILITY. CAPITOL IS AN ARTIST WHO MAKES DOLLS. MAKES, DAMAGES, TRANSFORMS, SMASHES. ONE OF HER DOLLS IS A WRITER DOLL. THE WRITER DOLL ISN’T VERY LARGE AND IS ALL HAIR, HORSE M…
Empire of the Senseless
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins
Lulu
Lulu
Empire of the Senseless
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins
Dead Doll Humility
Dead Doll Humility Kathy Acker IN ANY SOCIETY BASED ON CLASS, HUMILIATION IS A POLITICAL REALITY. HUMILIATION IS ONE METHOD BY WHICH POLITICAL POWER IS TRANSFORMED INTO SOCIAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. THE PERSONAL INTERIORIZATION OF THE PRACTICE OF HUMILIATION IS CALLED HUMILITY. CAPITOL IS AN ARTIST WHO MAKES DOLLS. MAKES, DAMAGES, TRANSFORMS, SMASHES. ONE OF HER DOLLS IS A WRITER DOLL. THE WRITER DOLL ISN’T VERY LARGE AND IS ALL HAIR, HORSE M…
Obsession
Obsession Kathy Acker My Father Kathy says, For finally my father was coming back. As soon as the night turned black as the cunts of witches, he walked through our door. Once he had settled down inside, with his pint and slippers, the cat nodding drowsily against his shoulder, he told me that he hadn’t brought back what he had promised me, my own whip. Instead he had come back with a non-white brat, outcast, orphan. This devil’s child who was nam…
Kathy Acker interviewed by Rebecca Deaton
The Last Sex
Against Ordinary Language
From Puss, King of the Pirates
Seeing gender
Eurydice in the Underworld
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Empire (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art history (2 works)