getting to yes

evangelism and its limits

Jasper Johns, Scent, 1975

I’ve been thinking about this n+1 essay about consent called Don’t Say No. It begins with a description of I Love Dick by Chris Kraus, an autofictional book wherein the narrator (Kraus herself) falls obsessively in love with someone who is indifferent to her and writes him exceptionally entertaining letters for a year. At one po…