{"product_id":"im-very-into-you-1","title":"Im 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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57375982977406,"sku":"NW9781584351641","price":11.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781584351641.jpg?v=1778691270","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/im-very-into-you-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}