A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

February 26, 2006

Murau's Tabu

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. A few hours ago I got back from the Goethe Institute where I watched the silent film Tabu by FW Murau with live piano accompaniment. I...
February 20, 2006

Some comedians

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. Some comedians are actually funny while others are not. Would it be correct to say the comedians who are not funny are actually not co...
February 12, 2006

On Double Consciousness

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. Simply giving people ‘the information’ will not suffice, for it is a central characteristic of the modern world that we are able to live i...
February 7, 2006

Ideologues Want It Desperately

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. Fucking right wing scuzzballs simply want it more badly then the rest of us, aren’t plagued by the same doubts, the same suspicions of...
December 19, 2005

Nasty / Compulsive

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. In a Friendster profile from some exciting looking stranger in (I think it was) France I read “I have a nasty habit of avoiding things...
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December 12, 2005

The Triage of Small Things

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I had forgotten that I had said that modern life was like triage, that we deal with each thing in our lives on a strictly emergency basis, a...
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December 5, 2005

Happening Time

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. Corporate oligarchy isn’t my idea of a happening time. An investment in our future is an investment in the enemy’s consolidation. Take t...
November 28, 2005

Confusion Always Leaks

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. Confusion always leaks. Like a middle child unsure where exactly it falls within the general family pecking order, a sense of being un...
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October 16, 2005

Ring Tone Sonata

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.   Take one large sheet of tracing paper. Place it over top of the screen of your television set. If you do not personally own a tele...
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October 3, 2005

Possible Dialog For A Future Detective Novel

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.   “He behaved badly. And then I behaved badly. And now it’s done.” “You think you’re tough. You’re not tough. I could pull out my dick...
September 26, 2005

Happiness isn’t always cheerful.

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. There is the pretence that the purpose of language is to communicate when so often we use words only to protect ourselves or attack oth...
September 19, 2005

Coincidence

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.   1. When we see coincidences as meaningful what we are really saying that there is some sense to life, that everything is not just ch...
September 12, 2005

Cinema

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.   1. There is no such thing as anti-cinema, all cinema is equally enthusiastic. I believe this is the case because technology requires ...
August 29, 2005

Individualism Was A Mistake.

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1. Individualism represents a kind of freedom and excitement but also generates a very specific and intense strain of powerlessness. This po...
August 22, 2005

Language

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. French is the most beautiful language. Anything you might want to say automatically sounds better when spoken in French. One sentence ...
August 15, 2005

Four Short Comedic Prose Poems

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.   The Womanizer “Have the bastard fixed,” was all she said. So we did. We had the bastard fixed. Things went much better after that. Con...
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August 8, 2005

Crowds with the object of their adoration incurably absent

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. 1. I must go back to the place where things were simpler and a more benign perspective gently revealed itself. There was once a place ...
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Jacob Wren
Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. His books include Polyamorous Love Song, Rich and Poor, Authenticity is a Feeling and Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim. As artistic director of the interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created performances such as: En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize, Individualism Was A Mistake, The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information, Every Song I’ve Ever Written and Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la répétition. PME-ART also presented the online conference Vulnerable Paradoxes and the related free PDF publication In response to Vulnerable Paradoxes. He is co-founder of the orchestra The Air Contains Honey whose first album is forthcoming in 2026. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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