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Kathy Acker

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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.


— Kathy Acker


#i #i think #out #power #reasons

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.


— Kathy Acker


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That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.


— Kathy Acker


#good #left #left wing #out #right-wing

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.


— Kathy Acker


#examine #government #high #know #literary

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.


— Kathy Acker


#backlash #bad #now #really #right

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.


— Kathy Acker


#horrible #i #i think #just #know

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.


— Kathy Acker


#censorship #encountered #exactly #get #just

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.


— Kathy Acker


#been #does #right-wing #things #understanding

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.


— Kathy Acker


#fear #pervasive #well

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.


— Kathy Acker


#basic #basically #i #i think #jazz






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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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