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
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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.
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You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.
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I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.
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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.
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We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
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I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
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I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
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But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
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Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
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And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
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I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
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You can do whatever you want with my work.
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There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
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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.