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A high school aged Toni Morrison reads over a classmate’s shoulder.

Thorburn’s miniature portrays the contrast between the Queen’s professional and personal life: wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter whilst reading a letter simply attired in black wearing a miniature bracelet on her wrist and the treasured crystal locket that had been an engagement present from Queen Louise of the Belgians.

— Torpor by Chris Kraus

Writing I Love Dick, I understood that women have been denied all access to the a-personal. Look – the “I” in Celine’s Journey to the End of Night – it’s an “I” that’s scabrous and hilarious and personally revealing. But is Journey read as a confession? No, it’s one of the great books of the 20th century. It’s an idea I picked up later on, writing Aliens & Anorexia – chronicling the career of the philosopher Simone Weil through the reception of her writings. She was a crazy modernist like Artaud, Celine, Bataille, but as a female her “I” has been pathologized – she can’t get fucked, she’s manipulative and anorexic, she’s ugly and she dresses badly – her “I” was never read as universal and transparent. That, to me, points towards this great disgust with female-ness. As if a revelatory female self cannot be anything but compromised and murky. It’s a very Catholic word, “confession.”

From the diaries of Kathy Acker. After Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus’s biography of the late author, is one of our Ready-to-read F/W’17-18 “Currency” themed selects. 

— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

chris kraus, emotional technologies 

— - Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

— Eileen Myles, in her foreword to I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

— Palle Yourgrau’s  introduction to Aliens and Anorexia

(I’ll stop quoting it when it stops being phenomenal.)

To the eternal now 💸 (at Eckhaus Latta Retail Store)

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Clemmie

Jess