{"product_id":"9781478014683","title":"Philosophy for Spiders","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt'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 Philosophy for Spiders, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51709648699666,"sku":"9781478014683","price":45.84,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781478014683.jpg?v=1774736470","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781478014683","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}