I’m always trying to get my friends to forward me emails they’ve sent to other people — to their mom, their boyfriend, their agent — the more mundane the better. How they comport themselves in email is so intimate, almost obscene — a glimpse of them from their own point of view. WE THINK ALONE has given me the excuse to read my friends’ emails and the emails of some people I wish I was friends with and for better or worse it’s changed the way I see all of them. I think I really know them now. But our inner life is not actually the same thing as our life on the computer — a quiet person might !!!! a lot. A person with a busy mind might write almost nothing. And of course while none of these emails were originally intended to be read by me (much less you*) they were all carefully selected by their authors in response to my list of email genres — so self-portraiture is quietly at work here. Privacy, the art of it, is evolving. Radical self-exposure and classically manicured discretion can both be powerful, both be elegant. And email itself is changing, none of us use it exactly the same way we did ten years ago; in another ten years we might not use it at all. Thank you to Kareem, Kirsten, Sheila, Danh, Lee, Etgar, Kate, Laura, Lena and Catherine for their daring and diligence.

– Miranda July despre proiectul We Think Alone

We Think Alone va debuta pe 1 iulie 2013 şi, timp de 20 de săptămâni, se vor trimite 20 de e-mail-uri semnate de Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunhamm, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Catherine Opie, Lee Smolin, Danh Vo. Subiectul primelor e-mail-uri va fi banul. Dacă vreţi să luaţi parte la proiectul Mirandei, intraţi pe wethinkalone.com şi înscrieţi-vă adresa de e-mail pe care să primiţi cele 20 de corespondenţe. În prezent, Miranda July lasă viitorul în urmă pentru un nou prezent. În rest, îşi petrece duminicile punându-şi întrebări existenţiale.

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