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 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] -from
I'm Very into You After 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, The X-files,
psychoanalysis, and the I Ching. Their corresepondence is a Plato's
Symposium for the twenty-first century, but written for queers,
transsexuals, nerds, and book geeks. I'm Very Into You 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.
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