{"product_id":"philosophy-for-spiders-on-the-low-theory-of-kathy-acker-9781478014683","title":"Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker","description":"It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Spiders\u003c\/i\u003e, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker. Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works. Wark finds not just an inventive writer of fiction who pressed against the boundaries of gender but a theorist whose comprehensive philosophy of life brings a conceptual intelligence to the everyday life of those usually excluded from philosophy's purview. As Wark shows, Acker's engagement with topics such as masturbation, sadism, body-building, and penetrative sex are central to her distinct phenomenology of the body that theorizes the body's relation to others, the city, and technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcKenzie Wark is Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College at The New School and author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eSensoria: Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReverse Cowgirl\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCapital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?\u003c\/i\u003e Her correspondence with Kathy Acker was published as \u003ci\u003eI'm Very Into You\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567870382354,"sku":"9781478014683","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_320a8675-caf2-47c3-a816-59c3cbfd4f73.jpg?v=1731930966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/philosophy-for-spiders-on-the-low-theory-of-kathy-acker-9781478014683","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}