Notes from Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art (2023)

Notes from Miriam Kienles's Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art (2023)

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⌘ Book-length effort to place Johnson's postal art in the context of both theory (Deleuze & Guattari, Derrida) and queer theory (Bersani, Muñoz, Sedgwick, Butler). Valuable, even if the task feels a bit like pinning a butterfly

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1. Postal networks as sites for intermixing and play

2. Foucault on our experience of the world

3. "Heterochronism"

4. Cage vs. discourse

5. Bernhard Siegel's "postal epoch"

6. "Intermedial perception"

7. Nam June Paik's "Postmusic"

8. Gossip as "postmodern testimony"

9. Fictional galleries

10. Johanna Drucker on early happenings

11. Ray Johnson's "nothings" and queer cultural production

12. Ray Johnson's "intimate bureaucracies"

13. Happenings and the "collage principle"

14. "Counterpublicity"

15. "Faciality"

16. Ray Johnson and naming

17. 1964: Black, White, and Grey

18. Agnes Martin and Ray Johnson

20. Kevin Ohi's "Dead Letters Sent"

21. Elizabeth Freeman's "transtemporal drag"

22. FILE Megazine and General Idea

23. Elizabeth Freeman on "generations"

24. Tim Dean's "Unlimited Intimacy"

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