A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. The ones who can call themselves contemporary are only those who do not allow themselves to be blinded by the lights of the century an...

. He preferred to write drunk. His books were more successful when he wrote them drunk. His theory was that his drunk books were looser ...

. I stayed at the launch for approximately twenty-five minutes. I often go to events for a short amount of time. When Warhol was asked how h...

. Assholes are everywhere in the trees and in the eaves from summer skies to autumn leaves telling lies and thwarting needs they...

. What to do with the desire? With the desire that cannot be sated. With the violence and anger that stems from this desire and with the...

. A corporate executive, a union member and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table. On the table are 10 cookies. The CEO reaches out ...

. In Thailand the ad “Come alive – you’re the Pepsi generation” was translated into their language. It became, “Pepsi brings your ancest...

. An abundance of good art is being made today. It’s just not good for a lot that matters, in the reality-altering way that great art se...

. [The following letters were written as part of the project Big Brother where art thou? , a collaboration with Lene Berg. The project took ...

. ‘Facebook equals Big Brother’ is a common trope of our time. Big Brother where art thou? – a collaboration between Lene Berg and Jacob W...

. I’ve been making art for my entire life and I’ve never felt more lost. In this, I believe I am not alone. Do we care enough about ar...

. It’s incredibly difficult to write a novel with a lot of characters but no protagonist. A novel with a number of equally interesting, ...

. Overanalyzing something that is actually, in fact, pretty stupid, like an unwillingness to admit how basic and manipulative the factor...

. When I first heard the phrase ‘workfare’ (a kind of welfare where the recipient is forced to work) my knee jerk reaction was that it w...

. Anyone tried this joke yet, which only works if you tell it in the U.S.: "Who do you have to kill to get re-elected in this count...

. My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity...

. Then I was reading about Jean-Luc Nancy, apparently he had a heart transplant 10 years ago, and when his body was rejecting the foreig...

. I have the feeling that affects don’t exist, that affects are just emotions viewed through the distorting lens of critical distance. ...

. I am really not trying to be cynical. Actually I think the dilemma to some degree flows from the very nature of politics. One thing t...