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September 16, 2001
Empire of the Senseless - Kathy Acker 
Possibly the least taxing, and most famous, of Acker's works in which she
appropriates Gibson's Neuromancer -- turning what many consider to be a sexist work into an exaggeration of itself. Baudrillard probably had a field day reading this
and talking to his parlour buddies about the hyperreal.
Acker's 'style' is that of appropriation and a cut&paste mentality -- focusing on the juxtaposition
of concepts and idealized settings/characters -- shifting attention from the character/situation to (in layman's terms) what the character/situation is about.
Unfortunately in doing so, Acker creates a text that isn't so much difficult to read, as it is undesireable -- offering little enjoyment to the act of reading, only
enjoyment from ruminations after having 'plowed through'.
Rating: 1/3
ISBN: 0802131794
Posted by Jonathan at September 16, 2001 2:56 AM
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