Author and editor Chris Kraus has long been intent on collapsing the barrier between autobiographical reflection and serious political thought. In her first novel I Love Dick, which features a protagonist candidly named Chris Kraus, she asks, “If women have failed to make ‘universal’ art because we’re trapped within the ‘personal,’ why not universalize the ‘personal’ and make it the subject of our art?” I Love Dick was published fifteen years ago, but this question of radical subjectivity continues to guide Kraus’ fiction, criticism, and her decisions as editor of the Semiotext(e) series Native Agents.
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