A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

July 24, 2025

Francesca Albanese Quote

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. “And to the Palestinians and those from all corners of the world standing by them, often at great cost and sacrifice, I say whatever h...
July 17, 2025

changing around (and unchanging) the various titles

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. Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim (2024) Desire Without Expectation (2027) Faithful Unbeliever* (2030) I now seem to spend a signi...
July 15, 2025

Some favourite books of 2025 (so far)

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. [I do a list at the end of every year . And sometimes I also do a shorter list in the middle. Not all of these books were published this...
July 12, 2025

NEVER STOP ACTING FOR PALESTINE

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. Next Wednesday, 5pm, join us for a popular gathering at métro Mont Royal, at the square, a live speak out and recording for broadcast on...
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July 5, 2025

I haven't read this book...

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. I haven't read this book. The reason I'm posting it is I grew up at the tail end of the Cold War. And perhaps the Cold War thin...
July 4, 2025

fourteen years ago

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. I've been thinking a lot about this bad poem I wrote fourteen years ago: Obsessing over the ramifications of the National Defense A...
July 3, 2025

So I don't forget this day...

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. "With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its ...
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July 2, 2025

“Because it is lucrative for many.”

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. “Companies are no longer merely implicated in occupation – they may be embedded in an economy of genocide,” it said, in a reference to I...
June 26, 2025

With an archive in the attic in dHOUSE Magazine

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. I have a text in dHOUSE Magazine called With an archive in the attic . The table of contents moves around but, if you search, you ca...
June 25, 2025

"Other than capitalism, what qualifies conceptual art?”

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. "A fantastical text concerning transformation, Jacob Wren’s novel Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim follows a narrator to an un...
June 22, 2025

"Because there is only room for one empire at a time."

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. "I start to think about all the stated reasons for this war and other wars like it. For humanitarian reasons (every time an expen...
June 11, 2025

PME-ART in Harstad, Norway (June 22-24)

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. PME-ART will be in Harstad, Norway for a series of events at Festspillene i Nord-Norge Panel: Common Things Made Holy June 22, 2025 ...
June 10, 2025

The first page...

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The first page of Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim .
June 2, 2025

I Make and Watch Performances

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[This text was written for the Montreal edition of Oral Method in response to the prompt EXCUSEZ-MOI.] 1. I make performances. Therefo...
May 20, 2025

Finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction

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. Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction (along with many other amazing books.)
May 10, 2025

Oral Method in Montreal / Saturday, May 31, 5pm

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🌀📜Excusez-moi! Pardon us! Please save the date for a 🌻 free 🌻 happy hour reading at Star Bar (4671 St Laurent Blvd) on Saturday, May 31...

Some passages from The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman

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Some passages from The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman : * “Regardless of specificity, solidarity always require...
April 28, 2025

Some passages from Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Some passages from Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : * And how this happened for me too – twenty years ago, when my ch...
April 24, 2025

truly amazing!

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. Really nice to see this very concise Goodreads review for my book Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART .
April 23, 2025

a demand

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. "Without a demand - power concedes nothing." [This statement was projected behind Gang of Four when I saw them perform the o...
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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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