Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity

Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:

• Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th

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writing itself was akin to engineering: “The technology is language. In order to invent something useful, you have to know what is needed now, but also you have to know the present state of the technology.” Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker Jason McBride (the medium is the message)

I held on to those other sources of income for so long because I never wanted to burden my writing with the responsibility of paying for my life. I knew better than to ask this of my writing, because over the years, I have watched so many other people murder their creativity by demanding that their art pay the bills. I’ve seen artists drive themsel

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