KATHY ACKER / Empire of the Senseless

Kathy Acker
Empire of the Senseless  1988
Hardcover, 227 pages
22 x 15cm
Grove Press, New York
First edition

Condition: Fine, some foxing on page edges

Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless is a bold, chaotic journey into a dystopian future where capitalism, patriarchy, and revolution collide. Through the eyes of Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, a half-human, half-robot woman, Acker crafts a scathing critique of societal decay and an urgent search for alternative myths and futures. Blending science fiction, political critique, and raw, visceral imagery, this novel is an unapologetic exploration of the broken systems that shape our world and the unsettling possibility of something radically different.