Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
By the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: “once for sound, once for meaning, once for ‘beauty’, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.”
To the extreme reaches of the radical left, to those who dared to believe that some sort of second American Revolution was actually imminent, these years constituted a brief shining moment, perhaps its last. To others, the bombings were nothing more than homegrown terrorism; the excesses of the radical left during the 1970s helped nudge America
... See moreThe violence of the 1970s may explain why people were so eager to elect Ronald Reagan
This is why I continually refer back to the early days of the personal website. Most website now seem to write everything as if the are auditioning for Wired or The New York Times. Everything is an "article." Every thing is big and overly structured. In contrast, the personal website was about the small, the raw, and the connection. It was about completely realized concepts. It was reactions and journals. "I just read this paragraph and I think this." As you can probably tell by now, I'm trying to bring this energy here—right now.
This was the case of Eleonora Duse, possessed by duende, who looked for plays that had failed so she could make them triumph thanks to her own inventions…
This reminds me of Kathy Acker stealing passages and making them her own.