A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. A very strange mention of my book on the Business News Network Blog : True story. I dropped the daughter off at dance class last ni...

. Wood is the fire that has not yet learned to burn. .

. The baby says to the demon I am receiving telepathy from the fire, the fire is telling me that it is not just wood that has been chopp...

. The secret lives of rapacious assholes. .

. Modern art is often characterized as a series of broken taboos, as a constant expansion of the possibility of making art. In fact, the...

. As it currently functions in the West, critical discourse thus proves to be astonishingly homogeneous. It is always the same things be...

. Throughout its entire history philosophy has constantly tried to discover or invent new paradoxes in order to gain the upper hand over...

. Sophistical speech appears to be coherent only because it is one-sided, because it is cut off from the whole, and because it obscures ...

. Whenever Socrates diagnoses an internal contradiction in a speaker, he immediately disqualifies that speech a non-evident, exposing th...

. About Fr. Rolfe's lost novel Don Renato, or An Ideal Content , A.J.A. Symons writes: “No writer ever set himself a more difficul...

. I speak in a voice grown horse from silence and feuilletons. I’ll begin with a piece that has been lying around for a long time. The...

. By this time he was a man of some maturity, and a man who, that day, had combed his hair, shaved, put on a nice red tie, and come to a...

. The most effective lie is always the one closest to the truth. The closer the better. A dream is not true but is never a lie. There are va...

. “Number one is that the world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks to ever defile the soil of this planet.” ...

. The unbuilt is characteristic of those arts whose realization requires the remunerated work of many people, the purchase of materials,...

. There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. Trying to revive tradition is like raising a ladder to...

. You are a self-deceiver and as such belong to the last generation. .

. Pain, crime and sadness. Tears, stupidity and failure. Violence, light and charm. Crime, wisdom and more crime. Bitterness, love t...

. How can so many people do so much and generate so little meaning. It takes talent. Assholes have talent. Sad, sad obdurate talent. ...

. What follows is a column I wrote during the five days of Pop Montreal 2010 as part of the project Daily Print organized by Palimpsest...