The term “network” has often been used to characterize Fluxus's internationalism and to identify its membership. This has led a number of scholars to argue that Fluxus anticipated forms of artistic exchange now associated with Internet-based art. More recently, it has cast Fluxus as a precedent for applying a network model to other transcontinental avant-gardes, particularly in curatorial practice. Yet in the rush to relate Fluxus to contemporary discourses on global connectivity, insufficient attention has been paid to the specific apparatuses that facilitated its cohesion. This article stages an intervention into Fluxus studies (and by extension Conceptual art, mail art, and other transnational movements associated with communication and the “dematerialization” of the art object) by drawing on the field of German media theory to analyze the “paperwork” that makes up much of the movement's material production. Specifically, it focuses on how the artist George Maciunas's engaged the postal system in order to facilitate Fluxus's collectivity, as well to insinuate Fluxus's methods of experimental composition into larger power structures. After an opening discussion of Maciunas's important diagrammatic history of Fluxus's development (a.k.a. the John Cage chart), the article tracks Maciunas's deployment of newsletters to organize Fluxus activities, his infamous mail-based sabotage proposals, his collaborations with Mieko Shiomi and Ben Vautier, and his “Flux Combat” with the New York State Attorney General.

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国际不确定性：乔治·马修纳斯（George Maciunas）和《邮件》

“网络”一词通常用于表征Fluxus的国际主义并确定其成员。这导致许多学者争论说，Fluxus期望现在与基于互联网的艺术相关的艺术交流形式。最近，它使Fluxus成为将网络模型应用于其他跨大陆先锋派的先例，尤其是在策展实践中。然而，在急于将Fluxus与有关全球连通性的当代论述联系起来的时候，对于促进其凝聚力的特定设备却没有给予足够的重视。本文将对Fluxus研究进行干预（并扩展为概念艺术，邮件艺术，以及与传播和艺术品的“非物质化”相关的其他跨国运动），通过借鉴德国媒体理论领域来分析构成运动实质性生产的“文书工作”。具体来说，它着重于艺术家乔治·马修纳斯（George Maciunas）如何参与邮政系统，以促进Fluxus的集体化，以及将Fluxus的实验构图方法推广到更大的权力结构中。在对Maciunas关于Fluxus发展的重要图解历史（又称John Cage图表）进行了公开讨论之后，文章跟踪了Maciunas部署新闻通讯以组织Fluxus活动，他臭名昭著的基于邮件的破坏建议，他与Mieko Shiomi和Ben Vautier的合作，