Aliens & Anorexia

2018-06-14 Fiction

Author : Chris Kraus
Release : 2018-06-14
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Aliens & Anorexia written by Chris Kraus. This book was released on 2018-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ... It's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical' ... It's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s/m partner to reply to her emails ... It's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation ... Filled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, Aliens & Anorexia is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.

Aliens & Anorexia

2000 Fiction

Author : Chris Kraus
Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Aliens & Anorexia written by Chris Kraus. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness, the artist Paul Thek, Kraus herself, and Africa, her virtual S/M partner who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood movie while Kraus is chronicling the failure of her low-budget independent film Gravity and Grace.

Torpor

2017-05-04 Fiction

Author : Chris Kraus
Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Torpor written by Chris Kraus. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest novel from the author of cult super-hit I LOVE DICK It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan. Unflinchingly dark, hilarious and moving, Torpor is at once a satire and philosophy of cultural history, social identity and failing relationships. Dipping into the trajectory of a life at different moments, Kraus interrogates convention and emotion, creating characters that are flawed, witty, and altogether true to life. Part prequel, part sequel, Torpor continues a project of life-writing: personal, unsparing, and triumphant. If I Love Dick is the book of your 20s, Torpor is the book of your 30s.

I Love Dick

2016-07-22 Fiction

Author : Chris Kraus
Release : 2016-07-22
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 934/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book I Love Dick written by Chris Kraus. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration. In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first person narrative. I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the injustice in world and it's a book you won't put down until the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.

Video Green

2004-08-27 Art

Author : Chris Kraus
Release : 2004-08-27
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Video Green written by Chris Kraus. This book was released on 2004-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s art produced by high-profile graduate programs that catapulted Los Angeles into the epicenter of the international art world. Probing the programs' own art-critical buzzwords, Chris Kraus asks how LA art came to be so completely divorced from the city's other realities. Radicalized beyond belief, Video Green does for contemporary art what Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces did for the 20th century, mapping the persistence of peripheral culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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