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Kathy Acker

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I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.


— Kathy Acker


#i #mean #scared #work #your

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?


— Kathy Acker


#differences #i #modernist #question #really

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.


— Kathy Acker


#hurt #i #i think #important #oppose

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.


— Kathy Acker


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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.


— Kathy Acker


#fiction #get #i #influenced #like

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.


— Kathy Acker


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I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.


— Kathy Acker


#body #female #found #had #half

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.


— Kathy Acker


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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.


— Kathy Acker


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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.


— Kathy Acker


#censor #censorship #country #dangerous #each






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Posthumous reputation
Acker's work has been acknowledged by a number of younger writers working in an experimental style including Michael Hemmingson Stewart Home Mark Amerika Barry Graham Anna Joy Springer Tribe 8 singer and writer Lynn Breedlove Alexander Laurence Tamil novelist Charu Nivedita Michael Boatman Noah Cicero Travis Jeppesen and Salvador Plascencia. However one of Acker’s more controversial plagiarisms is from William Gibson’s 1984 text ‘'Neuromancer’' in which Acker equates code with the female body and its militaristic implications. Acker took her last name from her first husband Robert Acker; though named Karen Kathy Acker was known as Kathy by her friends and family.

Burroughs David Antin French critical theory philosophy and pornography. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School William S. Kathy Acker (née Karen Lehmann; April 18 1947 – November 30 1997) was an American experimental novelist punk poet playwright essayist postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer.

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