{"product_id":"airless-spaces-new-edition-paperback","title":"Airless Spaces, New Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShulamith Firestone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eSusan Faludi\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter they raised her dose to 42 mg. of Trilafon, Lucy very nearly fainted. She felt a rush of bad sensation comparable to her mental telepathy when her grandmother died ... But there was a good aspect to fainting too. As she was about to lose consciousness, she felt an overwhelming relief. The black velvety edges of the swoon. If only she could faint all the way, black out, and never wake up again ...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShulamith Firestone was twenty-five years old when she published \u003ci\u003eThe Dialectic of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, her classic and groundbreaking manifesto of radical feminism, in 1970. Disillusioned and burned out by the fragmented infighting within the New York City radical feminist groups she'd helped to found, when her book hit the bestseller lists, Firestone decided against pursuing a career as a \"professional feminist.\" Instead, she returned to making visual art, the profession that she'd trained for. She wouldn't publish anything again until \u003ci\u003eAirless Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1998. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong before her first hospitalization for paranoid schizophrenia in 1987, Firestone had fallen off the grid and into precarity and poverty. For the next decade, she would move in and out of public psychiatric wards and institutions. Conceived as a series of vignettes about institutions and identity, \u003ci\u003eAirless Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e is a subtle and deeply literary work. Embedded as a participant-observer, Firestone moves beyond the spectacular and frightening surfaces of institutional life to record individual lives and acts of cruelty and kindness. The existence that she depicts is a microcosm of the world beyond.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShulamith Firestone (1945-2012) was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in St. Louis, MO. After receiving a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, she moved to New York City. There she founded some of the first--and foremost--radical feminist organizations in the United States. In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, she published \u003ci\u003eThe Dialectic of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most widely discussed books of the second-wave feminist movement. Semiotext(e) published \u003ci\u003eAirless Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, her second book, in 1998. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Kraus is the founding editor of Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series. She is the author of nine books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 7.96 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53394028331315,"sku":"9781635902518","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OxnGbPnjB19781635902518.webp?v=1779699018","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/airless-spaces-new-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}