McKenzie Wark, Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

Lyotard believed that to write is to resist certainty; to stand up against the phallocentric preoccupation with mastery (391). Though one could argue that he failed to resist these masterly temptations himself, there is someone who succeeded at this almost impossible task: it is Kathy Acker. Fathers, authorities, those in positions of power—“unavoidable, but not to be dwelled upon, or with. Forget their names” (Wark 83). In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark’s account of Acker, this resist...