{"product_id":"im-very-into-you-correspondence-1995-1996","title":"I'm Very Into You: Correspondence 1995-1996","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole queerness\/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight\/gay is child's play compared to slipping between writer\/teacher\/influence-peddler whatever. I forget who I am. You reminded me of who I prefer to be.\" [M.W.]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's two in the morning... I know what you mean about slipping roles: I love it, going high low, power helpless even captive, male female, all over the place, space totally together and brain-sharp, if it wasn't for play I'd be bored stiff and I think boredom is the emotion I find most unbearable... \" [KA]\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eI'm Very into You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence. Their emails shimmer with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary. They write in a frenzy, several times a day; their emails cross somewhere over the International Date Line, and themselves become a site of analysis. What results is an index of how two brilliant and idiosyncratic writers might go about a courtship across 7,500 miles of airspace--by pulling in Alfred Hitchcock, stuffed animals, Georges Bataille, Elvis Presley, phenomenology, Marxism, \u003ci\u003eThe X-files\u003c\/i\u003e, psychoanalysis, and the \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir corresepondence is a Plato's Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers, transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks. \u003ci\u003eI'm Very Into You\u003c\/i\u003e is a text of incipience, a text of beginnings, and a set of notes on the short, shared passage of two iconic individuals of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, Matias Viegener","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44444589916396,"sku":"9781584351641","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781584351641.jpg?v=1718789978","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/im-very-into-you-correspondence-1995-1996","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}