Devouring InstitutionsMichael Hardin Essays by 13 authors, including Robert Mazzola, Carol Siegel, and Svetlana Mintcheva. Sections include "Writing between Madness and Paralysis," "Building the Body of Desires," "Attacking Language" and "Post-Plagiarism." With an introduction by the editor and a primary and secondary bibliography of Acker's work. . |
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Page 63
... girls of Pussy offer a model of one such community . Their community is not , however , a collectivity . The pirate girls are " rats , " in Acker's insistent metaphor , forming what Deleuze and Guattari define , using Elias Canetti's ...
... girls of Pussy offer a model of one such community . Their community is not , however , a collectivity . The pirate girls are " rats , " in Acker's insistent metaphor , forming what Deleuze and Guattari define , using Elias Canetti's ...
Page 159
... girls " and " boys . " Boys literally but perhaps not affectively disap- pear from Pussy near the end of the novel as the girls become Pirates . Just as there were no women in Stevenson's Treasure Island , there are no boys when the girls ...
... girls " and " boys . " Boys literally but perhaps not affectively disap- pear from Pussy near the end of the novel as the girls become Pirates . Just as there were no women in Stevenson's Treasure Island , there are no boys when the girls ...
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... girls of Acker are paradoxical . They are mimetic ( repeated types ) that represent a non - mimetic faculty or ( im ) ... girls take all this treasure , the reign of girl piracy will stop , and I wouldn't have that happen " ( PKOP 276 ) ...
... girls of Acker are paradoxical . They are mimetic ( repeated types ) that represent a non - mimetic faculty or ( im ) ... girls take all this treasure , the reign of girl piracy will stop , and I wouldn't have that happen " ( PKOP 276 ) ...
Contents
The Paralyzing Tensions of Radical Art in a | 47 |
BUILDING | 67 |
A Kaleidoscopic | 85 |
Copyright | |
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