{"product_id":"empire-of-the-senseless","title":"Empire of the Senseless","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1988, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Senseless\u003c\/i\u003e marked a turning point in Acker's wild, inimitable style. Considered one of her more accessible works, here Acker candidly addresses her lifelong obsessions: childhood and trauma, language and sexuality, criminality and corruption, oppression and rebellion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbhor (part human, part robot) and her lover Thivai (a pirate) traverse Paris in a dystopian future, in search of a mysterious drug that Thivai needs in order to maintain his ability to love. Navigating the chaotic city, they encounter mad doctors, prisoners, bikers, sailors, tattooists, terrorists, and prostitutes, while a band of Algerian revolutionaries take over, and the C. I. A. plots to thwart them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSexually explicit, graphically violent, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Senseless\u003c\/i\u003e resists the desensitizing of cultural consciousness and the disintegration of interpersonal communication. A timeless, prescient parable, it speaks profoundly to our social and political history as well as our present reality.","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515785556217,"sku":"9780802128355","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_06c6ae4b-e912-480b-a629-1eab91be614e.jpg?v=1781209187","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/empire-of-the-senseless","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}