A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. Sad angry bookshop world against world and again world who are the scumbags who think they can hide all the good books a poem is...

. Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won. - Paul Celan .

. And this is something that I link to the question of diplomacy – which is about the risks of war and peace. Diplomacy means that in su...

. My point of view today, and this had determined a good deal of my relation to cinema and to fiction in general, is that when it comes ...

. I didn’t succeed I failed and will fail again my work will be forgotten no one will read it it will all disappear .

. Tomb of the unknown drone pilot. .

. At a large German Schauspielhaus, three separate dramaturge’s are instructed to pick one old film each. The film must be feature lengt...

. It’s true, as I’ve told others, that knowing one knows nothing is the best way to be, since life, minute after minute, is never more t...

. From 1985 to 2004, PME-ART co-artistic director Jacob Wren wrote songs. Lots and lots of songs. Then he completely stopped. At the t...

. I have been thinking so much about solar energy, about how much of what I read, especially from a mainstream perspective, seems mispla...

. "I just read in an art column that the time for manifestos has passed. So I thought I’d write one…"    - R.B. Kitaj, First Dia...

. It all comes back to our old friend the arbitrary constraint. (The following is a fairly familiar argument, I think, but come along a...

. [This text was originally published in Spike Art Quarterly #25.] 1.  As an artist I feel more or less irrelevant. It seems to me t...

. I know I should be thinking about, or doing something, with feeling. I look at the things in the world, things I have thought about a ...

. 1. Not everyone can play violin or accordion (to give just two examples off the top of my head) but everyone can sing. 2. Singing is...

. desire is undiluted by an object romance is undisturbed by love tragedy is distilled from humanity [Part of a line fro...

. I don't think my proposal was amazing, amazing, amazing I saw what was strong about it but also what was weak how to fill five...

. People, stop having children. You are not doing yourselves or the world any good. Take the energies you would have spent on child-rear...

. Clinical psychiatry no longer uses the term neurosis, but it remains a vivid word. As Freud summarized the condition: “The ego has c...

. I have now been doing this blog for about seven years. Lately, I have once again become a bit obsessed with it, wondering what it is an...