Kathy Acker Quotes
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
Acker, Kathy. "Kathy Acker." Angry Women, edited by Andrea Juno and V. Vale, Re/Search Publications, 1991.
This courageous woman wrote many articles exposing some of the excesses of the Russians in coping with the Chechen conflict and the Chechen terrorists. She was also very critical of the Putin administration. She had just published an article exposing torture used by the Russians in dealing with terrorists. She was gunned down outside her apartment in Moscow. Politkovskaya was actually born in America and was an American Citizen as well as a Russian Citizen.
Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among the educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
This became a critically important quotation a half century after it was made. Judge Hand articulated the majority Western and Judeo-Christian value proposition between dissent and heresy. However, for the majority of the Islamic world, the reverse represents the majority value that is held. There is a minority in the West that agrees that avoidance of heresy is paramount and a minority of the Muslim world that agrees that the protection of dissent is the more important value, but the two civilizations were at odds in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, Islam is about 600 years younger than Christianity. 600 years ago, the Christian world agreed with the Muslim society and prevention of heresy was the more important value. The Reformation and the enlightenment followed by the world example of America produced a transformation and this may occur in the majority of the Islamic world in time.
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, and by French critical theory, mysticism, and pornography, as well as classic literature.
