{"product_id":"philosophy-for-spiders-mckenzie-wark-9781478013754","title":"Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker","description":"It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Spiders\u003c\/i\u003e, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker. Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works. Wark finds not just an inventive writer of fiction who pressed against the boundaries of gender but a theorist whose comprehensive philosophy of life brings a conceptual intelligence to the everyday life of those usually excluded from philosophy's purview. As Wark shows, Acker's engagement with topics such as masturbation, sadism, body-building, and penetrative sex are central to her distinct phenomenology of the body that theorizes the body's relation to others, the city, and technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e McKenzie Wark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478013753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478013754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"McKenzie Wark","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43986623135999,"sku":"9781478013754","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e30b1a53-a9c4-41bb-bf19-8991b4b05234.jpg?v=1683284454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/philosophy-for-spiders-mckenzie-wark-9781478013754","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}