{"product_id":"im-very-into-you-correspondence-1995-1996","title":"I'm Very into You : Correspondence 1995-1996","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-from \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI'm Very into You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe X-files\u003c\/i\u003e, psychoanalysis, and the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheir corresepondence is a Plato's Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers, transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: USA, 2015\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 152\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781584351641\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 1584351640\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39441794990183,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781584351641.jpg?v=1629454170","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/im-very-into-you-correspondence-1995-1996","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}