A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

December 18, 2021

Some passages from We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

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Some passages from We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba: * “So, maybe I j...
December 14, 2021

Idea/Process

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. [This text was originally published as part of the free book F A N Z I N E L E V E L 2 0 / 2 1 .] No one really knows how it work...
December 8, 2021

Some favourite things from my 2021

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. [So it seems like I now do this list more or less every year . I really do love lists . As with previous years, this is in no particular...
December 1, 2021

Some lines from the first two volumes of Susan Sontag's diaries

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. From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 “I am not myself with people […] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, t...
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November 18, 2021

Marco Roth on Sylvère Lotringer

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. What I’m trying to say about Sylvère was that he attracted and maintained an aura of possibility, and that this allowed me to begin to...
October 28, 2021

Four passages from Authenticity is a Feeling

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Four passages from Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART by Jacob Wren : * There are no individual solutions to collective pro...
September 23, 2021

A few actual dreams from the past eight 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...
September 20, 2021

The institution only cares about the institution

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. If anyone has any ideas, now is the time to try them. Find them strange, find the difficult strangeness within each one. We’ve und...
September 19, 2021

Ecological collapse is well underway...

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. Ecological collapse is well underway and there is no future to write for Yet one can still write to pass time that can no longer b...
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September 8, 2021

I believe it is a common enough experience...

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. I believe it is a common enough experience for a writer to have finished a book and, due to any number of factors, wait a very long ti...
September 5, 2021

An excerpt from The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart

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. Christian academies soon came to depend heavily on public support. In Falwell’s Virginia, for example, state-sponsored tuition grants ...
September 3, 2021

I often think about how strange it was...

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. I often think about how strange it was that, in my youth, I gravitated toward doing the opposite of something I didn’t like. Instead o...
August 26, 2021

I was just talking. For no reason. Off the top of my head.

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. I was just talking. For no reason. Off the top of my head. And that’s when all the subconscious biases willfully emerge. Almost ever...
August 22, 2021

A memory of when I would just sit down and write anything...

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. A memory of when I would just sit down and write anything, not worrying about quality or what I might do with it, just to break the de...
August 20, 2021

Quelques passages de Un sentiment d’authenticité : ma vie avec PME-ART (Traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Canty)

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Quelques passages de Un sentiment d’authenticité : ma vie avec PME-ART (Traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Canty): * « Il n’y a pas ...
August 3, 2021

All of my books...

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. All of my books are, more or less explicitly, about the relation between art and politics. And I'm thinking about giving myself a ...
July 27, 2021

Some passages from Believers by Lisa Wells

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Some passages from Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lisa Wells: * “One of the ways we humans organize and make se...
July 6, 2021

The Mud, The Vote and The Book

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. [This text was originally published in the Monika Romstein catalog Im Schlamm der Trägheit .] I don’t know how the name or game beg...
July 5, 2021

Some of the short stories I've written are so much more experimental than any of my novels.

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. Some of the short stories I've written are so much more experimental than any of my novels. And I keep trying to figure out how to...
June 29, 2021

Lauren Berlant Quote 3

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. I think there’s a lot of mess in solidarity, because the point of solidarity is a concept—an emotion. You don’t have to like the peopl...
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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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