QUEER NETWORKS: RAY JOHNSON'S CORRESPONDENCE ART
short bluesky summary: ⌘ 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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Notes [oldest to newest]
1. Postal networks as sites for intermixing and play
2. Foucault on our experience of the world
5. Bernhard Siegel's "postal epoch"
7. Nam June Paik's "Postmusic"
8. Gossip as "postmodern testimony"
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"
15. "Faciality"
17. 1964: Black, White, and Grey
18. Agnes Martin and Ray Johnson
19. Zach Blas
20. Kevin Ohi's "Dead Letters Sent"
21. Elizabeth Freeman's "transtemporal drag"
22. FILE Megazine and General Idea