LEADER 03381oam 22004694a 450 001 9910247446203321 005 20230621140716.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0150.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283595 035 $a(OAPEN)1004619 035 $a(OCoLC)1178720763 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87146 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39694 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283595 100 $a20200724e20202016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCMOK to YOu To: A Correspondence$fNina Z?ivanc?evic? and Marc James Leger 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2016 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (516 unnumbered pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 $a0-615-98804-0 330 $aCMOK to YOu To presents the 2015 email correspondence of the Serbian-born poet, art critic and playwright Nina Zivancevic and Canadian cultural theorist Marc James Leger. In December of 2014 Leger invited Zivancevic to contribute a text to the second volume of the book he was editing, The Idea of the Avant Garde -- And What It Means Today. Taken with each other's idiosyncrasies, their correspondence gradually shifted from amiable professional exchanges and the eventual failure to organize a scholarly event to that of collaborating on some kind of writing project. Several titles were attempted for the eventual book -- Marshmallow Muse: The Exact and Irreverent Letters of MJL and NZ, The Orange Jelly Bean, or, I Already Am Eating from the Trash Can All the Time: The Name of This Trash Can Is Ideology, The Secreted Correspondence of Mme Chatelet and Voltaire, and I'm Taken: The E-Pistolary Poetry of Kit le Minx and Cad -- but none of these proved to be more telling than CMOK, the Serbian word for kiss, which sums up the authors' quest for "harmony" in an altogether imperfect world and literary medium. In this book, names of real people were changed in order to protect those who might otherwise be offended by the unguarded and absurdist commentary of its authors. Despite this fact, it is the fragility and elasticity of the writers' superegos that is tested as they vacillate from personal registers to intellectual strata. At once a cis-avant-gardist's exploration of anti-art and a poet's claim to some weak form of autonomy, CMOK delights in both the pleasures of casual email and the sublime realizations of Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuation. CMOK is a hybrid genre and a quest into the real of virtuality that defies the literary standards. Its authors, who never met, answer one another's basic needs and questions, separated as they are by time zones and the ocean, but not culturally or spiritually. 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $acorrespondence 610 $apsychoanalysis 610 $aJacques Lacan 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 676 $a891.8236 700 $aZ?ivanc?evic?$b Nina$f1957-$0984396 702 $aLeger$b Marc James$f1968- 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910247446203321 996 $aCMOK to YOu To: A Correspondence$92248538 997 $aUNINA