Shapeshifting press Semiotext(e)’s five decades of politics and poetics
...Kraus in Los Angeles. By avoiding the nostalgia-bait that kills forward momentum, Kraus and El Kholti have balanced inheritance and instinct in stewarding the press’s...
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2024–25: A New Perspective
...do well to follow Chris Kraus’s idea, as she explains to Whitney Mallett in a reflection on legendary independent press Semiotext(e), not to “separate personal...
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
...Colm Toibin, Constance Debré, Chris Kraus, Alexis Okeowo, Hedi El Kholti, Rachel Kushner out to read with emerging talent in independent spaces. In this way,...
Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’
...Frenchman preening in high-vis spandex this July,” said no one ever. Or so I imagine—I’ve never learned to ride a bike. Power and Cool by...
Document Launches Spring/Summer 2024: New Mythologies
...Mythologies—updating discourses on marriage, gangsters, skincare, and cruise ships for the post-influencer era. To accompany these 15 micro-essays by authors like Chris Kraus, Natasha Stagg,...
The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold
The films of Christian Petzold have always endeavored to re-enchant and re-dramatize the image of the director’s native Germany during its tumultuous late-20th century. As...
Chris Kraus and R.O. Kwon on the transgressive power of sex
...complex relationship between mind and body, embracing erotic play as a tool: not only to induce pleasure, but to reevaluate the cultural and personal narratives...
Document Journal launches Summer/Pre-Fall 2021: A New Desire
...Chris Kraus and R.O. Kwon consider erotic power exchange and the desire to transgress norms, reshaping our cultural and personal narratives in the process. In...
Writing as exorcism: Chris Kraus on the art of confessional literature
...are a product of something more ephemeral: chance, kismet, forces undetermined. Lately Chris Kraus has been thinking about the stories that had to be told—books...
Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography
...sexual difference. It also precociously anticipates a whole genre of auto-fiction, including Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick, Lena Dunham’s Girls, Sheila Heti’s How Should a...
Author Chris Kraus interrogates social practice in her upcoming book of the same name
While most know Chris Kraus as the author of the epistolary novel-turned-Amazon series I Love Dick, her other novels and books on art have garnered...
