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After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore. The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the ar ...Show more
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ...scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was unprecedented: her books were banned in several countri ...Show more
Aliens and Anorexia by Chris Kraus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ...It's 1942 in Marseille, an ...Show more
Aliens and Anorexia by Chris Kraus
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and fai ...Show more
Hatred Of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader by Edited by Chris Kraus, Sylvere Lotringer
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Double Agents Series
Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and American fiction published in the Foreign Agents and Native Agents series over the last 15 years. Texts by Kathy Acker, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Shulamith Firestone, Eileen Myles, Tony Negri, Michelle Tea, Paul Viril ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, tra ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passi ...Show more
Social Practices by Chris Kraus
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. -- from Social PracticesMixing biography, autobiography, fictio ...Show more
Summer of Hate by Kraus Chris
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
"In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week before the guards took it away). The books he picked off the cart (The Bible, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Codependent No More.) What phone calls he made ...Show more
The Bastard Factory by Chris Kraus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv.Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth cen ...Show more
The Bastard Factory by Chris Kraus
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv. Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth ce ...Show more