Here’s the rest of the essay….was coming in smaller bits, but now an explosion. (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-10/53) (11-17/53) (18-22/53) 23. Despite any recourse to the nuanced heteroglossia of an Acker novel (available even to the casual, and perhaps dismissive, reader), part of the contrapuntal allure of her texts remains the difficulty in deciphering the [...]
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The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (23-53/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Hume, Jean Genet, Kathy Acker, Madonna, William S. Burroughs on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (18-23/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blaise Pascal, Blood and Guts in High School, Bowie, Humbert Humbert, Hume, Jean Genet, Kathty Acker, Madonna, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs on August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-10/53) (11-17/53) 18. Surely she had precursors, as Humbert Humbert speaks of his famous nymphet. Yet, more than David Bowie or Madonna, who parlayed the myriad identity crises of postmodernity into a roster of ersatz personalities, Björk’s mature production parodies those types of overtures from the critical distance of the astral body. The [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (11-17/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Debut, Headphones, Kathy Acker, Larry McCaffery on August 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earlier: (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-11/53) 11. From Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School (1978): “The plants in her room cast strange, beautiful shadows over the other shadows. It was a clean, dreamlike room. He fucked her in her asshole cause the infection made her cunt hurt too much to fuck there, though she didn’t tell [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (7-11/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Blood and Guts in High School, Empire of the Senseless, Homogenic, Kathy Acker, Walter Benjamin on July 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Earlier: The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (1-2/53) The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (3-6/53) 7. And so become blinded by the arrival of Kathy Acker, deceased “punk” novelist whose three decades of work “puts in its place a universe of shameless, playful freakery,”[1] a writer who matches “guts [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (3-6/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beastie Boys, Bjork, Deleuze, Freud, Guattari, Judge Schreber, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Pagan Poetry, Radiohead, Richard Gere, Richard Linklater, Robert Smigel. Kathy Acker, Rolling Stone, Verspertine, Waking Life on July 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
3. Reproducing visual images on distant screens through the “natural” magic of electricity helps to precipitate a Robert Smigel “Fun with Real Audio” segment of “TV Funhouse” (on the March 17, 2003 episode of Saturday Night Live). The segment features a cartoon Björk inhabiting an alive and increasingly irate swan dress while singing her Oscar-nominated [...]
The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (1-2/53)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bjork, Homogenic, Kathy Acker on July 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
1. ‘All I know is that we have to reach this consumer construct. And her name’s BJÖRK.’ ‘That’s a nice name. Who is she?’ 2. Perhaps the answer can be found on Björk’s Homogenic record (1997), a collection of lush orchestral soundscapes and tenuous, artificial symmetries cut through a drum ‘n’ bass mix. The photograph [...]
Notes on Twee, part 1: Music Videos as School Plays
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Stewart, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Bjork, Chris Robinson, Christian Palladino, Crash Test Dummies, Danielson, Darren Doane, Dave Meyers, Dwayne Carter, Fefe Dobson, HORSE The Band, Lil Wayne, Mastodon, Michel Gondry, Mike Maguire, MTV Movie Awards, Of Montreal, Panzervision, Patrick Daughters, Paul McGuigan, Roboshobo, Snow Patrol, The Avalanches, The Brothers Chaps, The Decemberists, The Max Fischer Players, The Shins, Tom Kuntz, Wes Anderson on January 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »
1993: Crash Test Dummies: “MMM MMM MMM MMM”, director unknown.
Lars von Trier’s Slippery, Sloppy Antichrist
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 500 Days of Summer, Antichrist, B.F. Skinner, Bach's Cello Concertos, Bjork, Blue Velvet, Breaking the Waves, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dancer in the Dark, David Lynch, Dogville, Duplicity, Gerhardt Ritcher, Ingmar Bergman, Inland Empire, John Cassavetes, Lars von Trier, Martin Scorsese, Michael Haneke, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Willem Dafoe on November 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Lars has made some very good movies in his time. Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville are all examples of exciting, provocative cinema. And now comes this–thing. I’m very mixed about this motion picture. Not torn up, not oozing, like after Eyes Wide Shut. There are some beautiful images in this film, [...]
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