Chris Kraus’s Social Practices in Frieze

“I wish we didn’t have to read Chris Kraus, and this week I read her aloud to my students, quoting passages on Kate Newby, Henry Taylor and Channa Horwitz, all from her new book Social Practices (Semiotext(e) 2018). Kraus’s criticism is generous and warm. But, it is written from a world I wish we didn’t live in...” So begins my review of Kraus’s new volume of collected criticism in Frieze, where I move from teaching to stripping and my dreams for my students in the era of Brett Kavenaugh and Blasey Ford, as well as how Chris Kraus got me to start writing, to start seeing myself as a writer when I was in my early 20s... Read more here.