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Kathy Acker [1947-1997] American

Rank: 101
Activist, Novelist

Kathy Acker was 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.

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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.		101
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.	Dreams	102
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.		103
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.		104
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.		105
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.		106
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.		107
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.		108
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.		109
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.		110
I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.		111
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.		112
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.		113
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.		114
That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.		115
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.		116
And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.		117
But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.		118
But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.		119
I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.		120
I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.		121
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?		122
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.		123
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.		124
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.		125
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.		126
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.		201
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.		202
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.		203
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.		204
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.		205
You can do whatever you want with my work.		206
You know I've had work banned.		207

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