Lecture by Chris Kraus

The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable

• Kathy Acker
• (1947-1997)
• died prematurely in a very sad and abandoned fashion
• Bit of a Rockstar crossover between music and literature
• She was very popular in the 80s
• She had always wanted to be a writer for the fame
• unfortunately it was redundant for her to become a writer
• by the time she had become a writer they were less popular than when she first set out to become one
• explains her need to become involved in sex shows
• She greatly enjoyed the attention she got in her sex shows
• Chris Kraus approaches her critically to properly get a sense of her writing
• can even connect with her to the extent of writing 'I' instead of 'she'
• a person who analyses in dept may find some similarities with the person they're analyses