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I’m feeling really ashamed that I’ve never read Chris Kraus. Because this:

As it turned out, the most gifted practitioner of Native Agents’ nonpsychoanalytic first-person mode proved to be Kraus herself. “To be female still means being trapped within the purely psychological… . Because emotion’s just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form… . 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?“ she wondered in I Love Dick, in which she aimed to do exactly that.