To mark the publication of the critical edition of Chris Kraus' Aliens & Anorexia with a new foreword by Palle Yourgrau, join us for an evening of readings from the book and a discussion of new feminism, with Chris Kraus,Kylie Gilchrist, Veronica Gonzalez Pena, Emily Gould, Ariana Reines, Masha Tupitsyn, and Kate Zambreno.

 In her second novel, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of "low self-esteem." Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism this culture hands us through its food.  As Yourgrau writes, "Kraus' rescue operation for aliens like Weil from behind enemy lines on planet earth is a gift, if, in the end, like all good deeds, it remains - as Weil herself would be the first to insist - a fool's errand." 

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