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
writing thinking magic
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
wells homophobia
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
grateful mean work-out
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
wings right-wing left-wing
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
easy surface love-each-other
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
mean hygiene people
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
dream writing people
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material.
levels machines literature
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
hate waiting unbearable
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
limitless natural disaster
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
berlin sailor bigs
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
dream murder
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
lying doorways steps
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.
listening might prophecy
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.