A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

August 26, 2017

Rich and Poor - The Single

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Rich and Poor: The Single Chaos & Star Records Why Toronto publisher BookThug is getting into the record business in The Globe and...
August 20, 2017

Three Montreal Events in September

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. I will be doing three events in Montreal in September as follows:  Tuesday, September 5th at 8:30pm: Resonance Reading Series: Se...
August 17, 2017

Stuart Hall Quote

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. Contrary to common-sense understanding, the transformations of self-identity are not just a personal matter. Historical shifts out the...
August 13, 2017

“If the Soviet Union could dissolve, why not the United States?”

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. In this spirit Cherríe Moraga remains “passionately committed to an art of resistance to domination by Anglo-America.” And what is her...
August 12, 2017

The music of Jenifa Mayanja

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I just discovered the music of Jenifa Mayanja who is playing tonight in Montreal . Above are a few of my favourite tracks. Better yet, c...
August 11, 2017

“It might be nice to be a girl, ‘cause then I wouldn’t have to be emotionless.”

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. "One avenue into understanding men’s loneliness is to consider how children are socialized. In an interview, Niobe Way, a lecture...
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August 10, 2017

Excerpt from a Tori Kudo interview

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. Keith Connolly: What then, would you say, is the state of Maher Shalal Hash Baz today? Tori Kudo: That’s a difficult question. It’s ...
July 17, 2017

Do you know the work of the Montreal writer Jacob Wren?

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. Luther Konadu: So knowing that as a writer, how do you carry on and continue to sustain a writing career knowing that maybe no one mig...
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Dr. Ahmet Yusuf Quote

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. The world experienced a revolution in 1492. In 1498 it experienced another. The results were hardly beneficial but they have come to b...
July 10, 2017

Barbara Browning Quote

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. Maybe you're thinking I should take everything my friend Lun-Yu tells me with a grain of salt. She also told me that day one of he...
May 2, 2017

J. C. Sutcliffe review of Rich and Poor in The Times Literary Supplement

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. Jacob Wren explores the boundaries and overlap between art, politics and fiction in his writing and filmmaking. On his blog, “A Radica...
April 11, 2017

Permaculture

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. Last night I went to see the documentary Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective and for the first time in a long time, maybe ever, I rea...
March 13, 2017

Book

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. I feel a perverse desire to try to write a book that every single person will hate. (I believe it has something to do with feeling ima...
March 9, 2017

Ten years

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. Facebook has just informed me that I joined Facebook exactly ten years ago. .
January 30, 2017

“neoliberalism” and “global warming”

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. “Neoliberalism” and “global warming” are two terms specifically designed to make things that are absolutely horrible sound not that ba...
January 26, 2017

Alicia Garza Quote

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. Intersectional politics (and practice) is not just theoretical – it is the lifeline upon which we depend for our collective liberation...
January 15, 2017

A few actual dreams from the past six years

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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...
January 13, 2017

A politics of caring for one another.

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. "And then I wonder if the way to fight requires some extremely long term thinking, to lay the mental groundwork for changes that ...
January 12, 2017

A Collective Chronicle of Thoughts and Observations

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. The Year 2017: A Collective Chronicle of Thoughts and Observations .
January 9, 2017

Story number one...

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. Story number one takes place ten million years ago and story number two takes place ten million years in the future. The problem is ho...
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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 is forthcoming in 2026. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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