Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Ackerwas an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy and pornography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
berlin sailor bigs
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
hands mind causes
...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...
grateful mean work-out
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
unbearable nonsense reactions
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
listening might prophecy
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
american-activist country internal
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
american-activist country power
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
american-activist bad
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
american-activist fascinated practices techniques various wondering
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
american-activist
You can do whatever you want with my work.
american-activist modernist
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
country effective political
And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
american-activist people
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
american-activist
But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.