I'm Very into You
Correspondence 1995–1996
$30.84
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2015
Summary
The tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary.“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.“It’s two in the morning… I know wha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584351640 |
| Author: | Kathy Acker, Matias Viegener, John Kinsella, McKenzie Wark |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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…this collected correspondence offers a fascinating glimpse of two artists at a time when they were as passionate about each another as their work.
…this collected correspondence offers a fascinating glimpse of two artists at a time when they were as passionate about each another as their work.
* Publishers Weekly *Described as ‘a Plato’s Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers, transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks’, this voyeuristic, epistolary saga gives us a unique insight into the lives of two artists at a time when they were as passionate about each other as they were their work. I’m Very Into You presents us with the guilty pleasure of gossip at its very smartest.
* Dazed Digital *About The Author
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker was a novelist, essayist and performance artist whose books include Blood and Guts in High School, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, Empire of the Senseless, In Memoriam to Identity, Don Quixote, My Mother- Demonology, and her last novel, Pussy King of the Pirates. Born and raised on New York’s Upper East Side, she died of breast cancer in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1997.McKenzie Wark (she/her), awarded the 2019 Thoma Prize for writing in digital art, is the author of A Hacker Manifesto Gamer Theory, andThe Beach Beneath the Street. Wark’s correspondence with Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) as I’m Very Into You.
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