“strategic confession”

militantmaudlinist:

Chris Kraus: And that’s why this book is a strategic confession. I’m very drawn to the use of the first person. When I started the Native Agents series of books for Semiotext(e) seven years ago, it was to publish the kind of writing that I liked — and that writing was entirely in the first person. And yet it was not an introspective, psychoanalytic “I.” It was an “I” that was totally alive, because it was shifting.

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Interviewer: So you think, like the ’70s feminists thought, that the personal is political?

Chris Kraus: The personal pursued for its own sake is no good. The “I” is only useful to the point that it gets outside itself, gets larger.

1990s Art Net Interview with Chris Kraus on I Love Dick. 

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