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
dream pirate body
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.
writing expression machines
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.
worry poverty hunger
Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.
moving water seems
The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.
writing connections language
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
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
I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
american-activist censor work
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
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.