A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

July 21, 2014

"I write when I’m not dancing."

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. I write because I’ve always enjoyed reading more than I enjoy life, and always enjoy life more because of certain things I’ve read. I ...
July 19, 2014

"If that’s what you’re interested in, well, what are you doing here?"

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. Henry Flynt’s newfound enthusiasm for recordings of blues, jazz and rock and roll soon found an interlocutor in the person of John Cag...
July 17, 2014

From the Twitter feed of Fuck Theory

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. Corporate efficiency is not invested in negotiation or in imagination. Since the dawn of the industrial age, variation has been its en...
July 13, 2014

Art and Compromise (Fragment)

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. In my most recent book Polyamorous Love Song there is a chapter entitled “The Centre for Productive Compromise.” In that chapter, rat...
June 29, 2014

Gods and goddesses against the gods.

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. I was in a used bookstore and there was a book on the table. I didn’t buy it and still haven’t read it. It was called God Against t...
June 21, 2014

The Drunken Orchestra

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. This work requires an orchestra. The orchestra prepares a program of music. This program should be slightly longer than usual. They re...
June 20, 2014

Surreal, transgressive and unsettling...

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. "In a letter to a friend, Franz Kafka once wrote, “I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we ar...
June 14, 2014

French is the most beautiful language

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. [This text was originally published in the Oh Canada catalog .] In 1996, about sixteen years ago, I wrote the following text in pre...
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June 9, 2014

Monica Byrne Quote

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. Mohini once said to me that we’re all children of rape, somewhere in our lineage, and how did I feel about that? We’re all the result ...
May 30, 2014

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Balzac invented the 'fictional artwork' genre. @GreatDismal raised the bar. Now try Polyamorous Love Song by @EverySongIveEve . —...
May 22, 2014

Jacob's first letter for Adventures Can Be Found Anywhere

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. Dear _________, Today I received a publication in the mail. It is a publication that I am a part of, that I have a text in. They fi...
May 18, 2014

Some passages from Panegyric Volume 1 by Guy Debord

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Some passages from Panegyric Volume 1 by Guy Debord : * “Never to have given more than very slight attention to questions of money, and ...
May 12, 2014

Fragment 3

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. Do not make threats you cannot keep or defend. Do not make threats, make something else instead. Someday someone will remember somethi...
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May 11, 2014

I suspect that it might be more accurate to say that fundamentally we are social creatures who just happen to feel as individuals.

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. The trouble is, as soon as therapeutic schools start to formalize and professionalize their procedures they nearly always—advertently ...
May 8, 2014

Example of a Mithraic catechism...

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. … He will say: ‘Where … ? … he is/(you are?) there (then/thereupon?) at a loss?’ Say: … Say: ‘Night’. He will say: ‘Where … ?’ … Say...
April 18, 2014

Mirjam Bayerdörfer Quote

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. In my spare time I've been trying to read, a lot on theater recently. Theater seems to be unavoidable after all. I found a quote b...
March 30, 2014

Polyamorous Love Song launches and events

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. I will be presenting my new book Polyamorous Love Song  at these fine events: April 4 & 5, Vancouver: There are reasons for l...

Hans Ruin Quote

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. Collegial rule has always belonged to a culture where people within an institution function as each other’s evaluators. In the academy...
March 18, 2014

Chris Kraus Quote

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. People who I respect say that you can only really deal with politics and situations after a passage of time, but I don’t agree. I thin...
March 16, 2014

Jill Magid Quote

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. The danger for an empire or a communist state – or even a democracy gone awry – is that the people with power and those without are pu...
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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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