{"product_id":"im-very-into-you-isbn-9781584351641","title":"I'm Very into You","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...this collected correspondence offers a fascinating glimpse of two artists at a time when they were as passionate about each another as their work.—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed 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. \u003ci\u003eI'm Very Into You\u003c\/i\u003e presents us with the guilty pleasure of gossip at its very smartest.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDazed Digital\u003c\/i\u003e—Kathy Acker was a novelist, essayist and performance artist whose books include\u003ci\u003e 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\u003c\/i\u003e, and her last novel, \u003ci\u003ePussy King of the Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised on New York's Upper East Side, she died of breast cancer in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1997.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcKenzie Wark (she\/her), awarded the 2019 Thoma Prize for writing in digital art, is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Hacker Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Beach Beneath the Street\u003c\/i\u003e. Wark's correspondence with Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) as \u003ci\u003eI'm Very Into You\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233251668197,"sku":"NP9781584351641","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584351641.jpg?v=1767729862","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/im-very-into-you-isbn-9781584351641","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}