Author: Acker, KathyKathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. A truly pioneering postmodernist, plagiarist and postpunk feminist, Acker continues to inspire generations of writers, philosophers and artists. 'Get Rid of Meaning' is the first comprehensive publication to synthesise art and literary perspectives on Acker’s work. It shows Acker’s own visual sensibility in her cut-up notebooks and her use of mail-art idioms, and orients her emergence within the 1970s art scenes.Contributors include: Kathy Acker, Dodie Bellamy, Hanjo Berressem, Ruth Buchanan, Anja Casser, Georgina Colby, Leslie Dick, Claire Finch, Johnny Golding, Anja Kirschner, Chris Kraus, Sylvère Lotringer, Douglas A. Martin, Jason McBride, Karolin Meunier and Kerstin Stakemeier, Avital Ronell, Daniel Schulz, Matias Viegener and McKenzie Wark.Working through a tradition spanning Bataille, Burroughs, Schneemann, French critical theory and pornography, Acker wrote numerous novels, essays, poems and novellas from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, among them the classics 'The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula', 'Blood and Guts in High School' and 'In Memoriam to Identity'. ISBN 9783753301181. Walther König, Köln. pb. 400 pages. 337 colour, 50 b/w ills. 25 x 34 cm.available
