A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

February 26, 2022

The Air Contains Honey at Les Salons acoustiques

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. The Air Contains Honey at Les Salons acoustiques Sunday, March 27th at 4pm La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines Order your tickets he...
February 10, 2022

lowercase pamphlets & Sentences Written Over Time

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. I am happy to have my work be one of the first three lowercase pamphlets: Sentences Written Over Time by Jacob Wren New Bones: Abol...
February 6, 2022

MACHO INTELECTUAL by INVASORIX

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I studied with a macho-macho-man He was a very popular teacher HE WAS AN INTELLECTUAL MACHO HE WAS AN INTELLECTUAL MACHO He impresse...
January 17, 2022

Hey! Listen to me! I'm on the stereo!

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. Thanks so much to Nantali Indongo and  CBC's The Bridge for having me on air the other day. We talked about Cheap Trick, Beverl...
January 13, 2022

My column in The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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. I was happy to have a column in SDUK (The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge) published by The Blackwood Gallery . These a...
January 8, 2022

Two short passages from Hospitality Matters: Un entretien avec PME-ART

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. I have such a strong belief in collaboration: as something thematically essential, as a place to make artistic breakthroughs that are ...
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...
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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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