Document Type
Article
Abstract
In "'But who is any longer interested in the possible?': Kathy Acker in Hell Failing Fuck You" I explore and celebrate Acker's use of a tropics of failure (plagiarism, pain, terror, gender-play, bad jokes, dumbness) as an inimitable strategy for achieving counter-cultural art and community. The prose style and "scholarly" apparatus of my article reflect not only my position as a poet/academic but also attempt to model an ethical, non-authoritative, Acker-informed critical language.
Repository Citation
Kennedy, Jake. ""But who is any longer interested in the possible?": Kathy Acker in Hell Failing Fuck You." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 5, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1–12. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss1/4
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