Aliens & Anorexia
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Written in the shadow of Georg Büchner’s Lenz at razor pitch, Aliens & Anorexia, first published in 2000, defines a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. The book unfolds like a set of Chinese boxes, using stories and polemics to travel through a maze that spirals back into itself. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness, the artist Paul Thek, Kraus herself, and “Africa,” her virtual S&M partner who’s shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest Woods for the winter to chronicle the failure of Gravity & Grace, her own low-budget independent film.
In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor “self-esteem.” Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism this culture hands us through its food.
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Bruce Ferguson, Paul Groot and Sylvère Lotringer take a careful look at the Canadian visual artist Eldon Garnet’s sculptural work. In individual essays, each critic places Garnet in the postmodern context, and examines a different aspect of his particular aesthetic.
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This text takes preschool children, parents and teachers on a journey to the African origins of writing in ancient Egypt. Full-color throughout. Bilingual text in English and French.
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