96 Quotes by Chris Kraus

It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story of one person. It was the kind of story (dare I say it?) that women are supposed to write because all its truths are grounded in a single lie: denying chaos.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

There were some low moments out there on the road tonight—abandonment and what’s the point?—but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night.

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Jerome described her as a waitress-translator, and Sylvie wondered why the women always have these hyphenated jobs? The men are all philosophers, artists, filmmakers."Kraus, Chris. Torpor (S.182)

Anyway we told him Liza’d do the physical part of sex, I’d do the verbal. Together we incarnated the cyborgian split projected on all females by this culture

But intersubjectivity in the text occurs through intertextuality, when distinctions between original and citation become blurred.

Fuck her once, she’ll write a book about it