A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality
August 31, 2012
Marguerite Duras quote
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. I can say what I like, but I shall never know why people write and how it is people don’t write. In life, there comes a time, and I ...
August 30, 2012
Enrique Vila-Matas quote
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. In those days I had no idea that, as Gide said, the great secret of works with style – the great secret of Stendhal for example – co...
August 18, 2012
Marcia Tucker quote
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. As a novice academician, I was assigned to the introductory classes, but I felt that I had leeway to be inventive, since the departmen...
August 12, 2012
Shestov / Thacker quotes
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. When a person is young he writes because it seems to him he has discovered a new almighty truth which he must make haste to impart to ...
August 10, 2012
Polemic
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. There were years, in my writing, in which I avoided all polemic / and then one day I thought, why avoid, why not fight for what you th...
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August 6, 2012
Art and Sport
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. Some people like art and others like sport / some people like making art while others prefer looking at art and some people like playi...
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July 22, 2012
The most nihilistic song is All You Need Is Love
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. In my dream last night, the last thing I remember saying just before I woke up was: ‘Alain Badiou says the most nihilistic song is All...
July 13, 2012
Possible opening for a new book...
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. I want to start again. I want to write a book that has nothing to do with any of the books I’ve written before. This is the kind of bo...
July 11, 2012
Juliana Spahr quote
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. They found themselves questioning ambiguity and its presumed neutrality in their work. - Juliana Spahr, The Transformation .
July 7, 2012
Short fragment on The Pinocchio Syndrome in contemporary literature
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. I don’t remember exactly when I started calling it The Pinocchio Syndrome, this: I want to be a real boy / I want to be a real novel t...
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July 6, 2012
Laura Riding Quote
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. Plainly the only problem is to avoid the love of lost identity which drives so many clever people to hold difficult points of view – b...
July 2, 2012
A video and four texts on my collaboration with Tori Kudo while in residency at The Museum of Art, Kochi
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From January 24 to February 23, 2012 I was in residency in Japan at The Museum of Art, Kochi to begin a new project in collaboration with ...
June 26, 2012
Two quotes from David Graeber
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. Over the course of twelve years of activism, I’ve come to realize that whoever is running this system is obsessed with winning the con...
June 12, 2012
Stanley Kubrick quote
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. The thing is Shindler's List is about success. The Holocaust is about failure. - Stanley Kubrick .
May 22, 2012
Seven hours of The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information
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. On May 25th PME-ART will be performing a new version of The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information for the opening of OFFTA in Montreal. ...
May 16, 2012
But the Japanese are able to carry such high levels of debt because when they get into financial difficulties the government bails them out.
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. From Connie Bruck's 1989 book The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders : ...
May 13, 2012
Fitting in
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. On not quite fitting anywhere. .
May 12, 2012
Passage from 'Le nez qui voque' by Réjean Ducharme
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. But yesterday, before falling asleep, I had some serious thoughts about ideas, or (take your pick) some serious ideas about thoughts. ...
May 9, 2012
A page from Mercury by Ariana Reines
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. Give up the habit of weeping for yourself, says the woman to the man with the malady of death in the novel by Marguerite Duras. The ...
May 5, 2012
The news
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. It feels to me that everything in our culture is wrong, everything is sick, misguided, lacking empathy and devoid of wisdom. But I kno...
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