{"product_id":"philosophy-for-spiders","title":"Philosophy for Spiders","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt'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 Philosophy for Spiders, 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. [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357718159700,"sku":"A8B-29665","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/kathy.jpg?v=1790812692","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/philosophy-for-spiders","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}