I like that idea that forgetting can be generative. And I would add that forgetting is sometimes necessary to learning, to change.
The Lenin mummy has been lying in the mausoleum on Red Square for more than a hundred years now, after all.
If there is one place where one must not censor oneself, it is in art, isn’t it? If there is one place where there should be no social punishment, it is in art.
I find my poetics even more interested in situatedness than knowledge, and that’s why place became so important in the book as an organizing principle. Or like an active interlocutor and a site of convergence.
I feel at ease in male friendships and at ease in what some might consider male spaces. I hate men. I love men.
To me, the most sensational thing in life, the real trippy thing, is to realize that everyone you know, everyone you hang out with, everyone you’ve ever met: they’re all thinking at all times. To really know that, to really understand that is sensational.
What does it mean to have a fake novel? What does it mean to have a novel that’s thinking, aware of itself as a novel, and thinking about
While facing a totally unknown new phase of my life, I had a feeling that I should push making music. I didn’t know what would happen and I didn’t have many songs written, but I wanted to try.
In painted portraits you can see the hand of the painter, the gestures, the point of view. All portraits are in a way self-portraits too. I wanted that to happen with this book as well.
I wanted to focus on language alone and its sheer force, uncontained by formal, philosophical, and empirical systems and thought.