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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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 The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes is forthcoming in November 2026. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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