{"product_id":"aliens-anorexia-new-edition-isbn-9781584351269","title":"Aliens \u0026 Anorexia, new edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, \u003ci\u003eAliens \u0026amp; Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e, defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and failed artists. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness; the artist Paul Thek; Kraus herself; and “Africa,” Kraus's virtual S\u0026amp;M partner, who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest woods to chronicle the failure of \u003ci\u003eGravity \u0026amp; Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, her own low-budget independent film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Aliens \u0026amp; Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e, Kraus makes a case 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 that this culture hands us through its food. As Palle Yourgrau writes in the book's new foreword, “Kraus's rescue operation for aliens like Weil from behind enemy lines on planet Earth is a gift, if, in the end, like all good deeds, it remains—as Weil herself would be the first to insist—a fool's errand.”\u003c\/p\u003eChris Kraus is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300766666981,"sku":"NP9781584351269","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584351269.jpg?v=1767721243","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/aliens-anorexia-new-edition-isbn-9781584351269","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}