Ray Johnson's "intimate bureaucracies"
 
Craig J. Saper has interpreted Ray Johnson's art as constructing "intimate bureaucracies" by "project[ing] intimacy onto otherwise impersonal systems"
 
see Saper's "Receivable Art and Poetry" (in Networked Art)
https://monoskop.org/images/b/ba/Saper_Craig_J_Networked_Art_2001.pdf
 
and Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto

> from Miriam Kienle's Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art (2023)

> tagged with #network, #art, #intimacy, #systems, #bureaucracy, #mail_art

> created June 30, 2026 at 12:33:53 PM

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