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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jenny Holzer, The Shining, Jean Luc Godard, David Bowie, Woody Allen, Brian Eno, Manhattan, Kathy Acker, Art Garfunkel, Stanely Kubrick, Blood and Guts in High School, John Lennon, New Wave, Talking Heads, George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back, DJ Kool Herc, Paul Simon, One Trick Pony, Bad Timing, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), Truisms, Lodger, Scary Monsters (And Super Freaks), New Romantic, Rod Stewart, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, Afrika Bambaataa, Universal Zulu Nation, Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”, McDonald’s Happy Meal, Sony Walkman, Stardust Memories, ambient music, Music for Airports, Fear of Music, 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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