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#AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #AuthorFail, After the Orange Glow, Ahadada, Animal Planet, Arthur Rimbaud, Black Heron, Blaise Cendrars, Bottom Feeder, Charles Bukowski, CHODE!, Chum, City Lights, Ecco Press, Exquisite Corpse, Four Walls Eight Windows, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mark Spitzer, Monkey Puzzle, Monkey Puzzle Press, Polemic Press, Riding the Unit, River Monsters, Season of the Gar, Seven Stories, Six Gallery Press, Spuyten Duyvil; Age of the Demon Tools, The Genet Translations, The Pigs Drink from Infinity, Toad Suck Review, UNO Press, Writer in Residence on June 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »

#AuthorFail is a new column at BigOther. For the details on how to submit, check here. The column looks for instances that bury achievement and redemption and genius and artistic growth and special-ness beneath the crushing failure that often constitutes the material experience of art making and so runs counter to the individual myth(s) which [...]

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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 »

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 (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 [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Jean Genet’

#AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer

The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (23-53/53)

The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (18-23/53)

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