A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

November 29, 2018

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: "Women loved to tell that story and would add that since that incident the men in Managua had left their hands off female strangers in public."

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. One story making the rounds when I first arrived was that a policewoman, armed and in uniform, was standing on a packed morning bus he...
November 21, 2018

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: "The administration was that brazen."

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. The deputy director of the CIA, Bobby Ray Inman, one of the weirdest of that cast of spook characters, was featured at a press confere...
October 28, 2018

Walt McClements / Lonesome Leash Quote

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. "I wrote “ Gallery Floor ” based on two things; an unexpected, charming and short lived (by design) romance with a wonderful man,...
October 26, 2018

Feature Friday

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. Feature Friday: Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART .
October 24, 2018

Miguel Gutierrez Quote

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. A few years ago I started to feel that I needed take a break from making performances. I was beginning to feel trapped in a cycle of m...
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October 14, 2018

Possible opening for a book-length essay tentatively entitled The Conditions for Human Flourishing

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. I’m worried that I’m going to write too many books. This is book number eight. Perhaps I think eight is already too many. But it is al...

Notes towards a novel tentatively entitled Promiscuous Bewilderment

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. A person who sets up a museum in their home. A horse that climbs into a boat. Reading a non-fiction book and encountering a mino...
October 8, 2018

15 Favorite Compilations

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. [As is well documented, I really love lists . A few years ago I made a list of Twenty all-time albums . I was recently thinking that, ...
October 3, 2018

October Thought Residency

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. For the month of October I will be in Thought Residency at the SpiderWebShow. Posting 30 seconds of thought three days a week. You can...
September 4, 2018

A User’s Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling in Malmö, Düsseldorf and Reykjavík

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. The new PME-ART project A User’s Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling will be on tour soon: Malmö October 26th & 27th, 2018 In...
August 29, 2018

M. NourbeSe Philip Quote

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. It was during those lectures I heard one of the truisms that form part of the canon on African art, and one which helps foster another...
August 28, 2018

keyon gaskin: "You can get it how i decide to give it to you, but you can't get it like you want it. Now what?"

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. i haven't always had normative access to this world, being in my body, being how i am. It has everything to do with being queer, p...
August 24, 2018

Three pages from Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART

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Three pages from Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART .
August 19, 2018

David Graeber Quote

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. In the 19th century idea of the political vanguard was used very widely and very loosely for anyone seen as exploring the path to a fu...
August 18, 2018

Maria Irene Fornes Quote

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. I think it’s more obvious when the fame stops and the person cannot continue putting out and putting out and putting out – and so the ...
August 17, 2018

Gustavo Esteva Quote

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. I was in the streets and I was participating in the reactions against the killings. But, still, I was very puzzled with a very intense...
August 15, 2018

Yasmin Nair Quote

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. Because I am actually, surprisingly, deeply optimistic. And I can give you historical examples. I’ll give you an example: when people ...
August 14, 2018

Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda Quote

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. But to argue that the imagination is or can be somehow free of race—that it’s the one region of self or experience that is free of rac...
August 5, 2018

adrienne maree brown: "connection to each other is the most important thing to cultivate in the face of hopelessness..."

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. Understanding that you can be wrong, have been wrong, helps to increase the compassion needed to work through the emotional and materi...
August 4, 2018

Six quotations on individualism

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. There is no ‘human individual.’ There is a psyche that is socialized and, in this socialization, in the final result, there is almost...
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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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