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"The beginning could also be the end. The idea of a lost masterpiece was of course alluring. But was there one? Did it actually exist? Perhaps the rumour was the work. Setting up the rumour was the masterpiece in and of itself. I didn’t know. No one knew. This is not that story. That story was only a tale I was following from afar. Yet everything is connected. The title of this so-called lost masterpiece was Desire Without Expectation. If it existed. Yet even it if didn’t I suppose that was still the title. The title was both fragment and clue." - Jacob Wren, from the novel-in-progress tentatively entitled Desire Without Expectation

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Stacy Barthe - Hell Yeah! ft. Rick Ross

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« Les pauvres doivent tuer les riches, un par un, chaque fois que l’occasion se présente. Un homme en tue un autre et le message est clair : votre richesse est cruelle et révoltante, et vous n'êtes à l'abri nulle part. »

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RICHES ET PAUVRES, publié en anglais chez Book*hug en 2016, paraît au Quartanier dans une traduction de Christophe Bernard. Le livre sort la semaine prochaine au Québec, mardi 30 avril.

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Petit livre, grandes idées. Trois courts textes où l’on s’interroge avec cynisme et candeur sur la possibilité de mener une vie bonne – à défaut de changer le monde.

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Publié chez Book*hug en 2015, LA JOIE CRIMINELLE DES PIRATES, de Jacob Wren, paraîtra la semaine prochaine au Quartanier, dans une traduction de Christophe Bernard. On vous en dit plus bientôt !

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Strong ideas about what we want become weak ideas about where we’ve been.

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A life made by linking one cliché to the next.

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Tom Howse (British, 1988) - The Neverending Beginning of the End (2020)

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Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson - Introduction To Why I Did It

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Stephen Pastel & Gavin Thomson with Unexpensive Superstars feat. John McCorkindale - We Have Sex

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"I take Sutcliffe-Braithwaite to be offering a warning, and a persuasive one: a retreat into the narcissistic pursuit of eroticized self-fulfillment will never be adequate to the task of social change in a system that seeks to atomize and isolate us. Some threshold number of polycules will never bring down a government, and in truth I don’t think a survey of most American polyamorists would reveal that they believe it could, either. If what one wants is revolution, of course it isn’t enough to be a revolutionary of sex—but neither does that mean that we shouldn’t be. The answer to any critique which distinguishes between sexual and material freedom must be to claim both. In a system that seeks to atomize and isolate, there is still some emancipatory potential in exploring different styles of living. For all the magazine covers and memoirs lately devoted to its alternatives, the dominant lifestyle in America remains monogamy, and the dominant means of maintaining that order remains compulsion. Perhaps the standard by which we evaluate polyamory or open marriage should not be its ability to remake the world but the possibility of remaking each other. After all, who hasn’t left the bed of a lover feeling undone? Feeling new, in some promising and terrible way that demands your attention? Alive to the possibility that you are not the person you thought you were, and that this will have consequences for how you live your life? This insight alone may not be enough ground on which to build a transformative political program, but it’s something. And if the people who are willing to cultivate rather than disavow it are annoying nerds, then so be it. Better that than a cynic or a scold. Perhaps it will always remain too earnest, too unbearably uncool, to admit you might believe that pleasure and care and devotion can exist in abundance." - Brandy Jensen, The Polycrisis: Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?

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Between writing novels, I attempt to start writing new novels, many false starts. Why does one of the starts eventually take while the others don't? Not a reason but a feeling. Mostly a feeling that I don't know where it's going but I want to find out.

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“Instead of opening doors and walking through them, I smash windows and glass walls. Everything is always locked so it has to be this way. I carry a giant ax around with me, which I stole from a fire emergency box. I worry the ax will give me away and I will be caught, but I’m not trying to be malicious… I simply am impatient. This mode of entering buildings goes viral. Now there are many of us who carry axes and never wait to be let in.”

— Jackie Wang, “The Resurrection of Angela” from The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void

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The idea was that by disappearing from the inessential elements of one's own life, whatever they might be, you would invetiably be brought closer to the essential: a sublime self-subtraction. Thus, we spent years together self-constructing in private. Burnishing jewels that were already there and transplanting ones that seemingly had no place. - Shola von Reinhold, LOTE

On constructed identities. I have only recently begun reading, but it is all I can think about when I go to sleep. Read if you love prose that sounds like opalescent pools. Meditations on being black and queer in the art world, of aestheticism, poverty, and Transfixion.

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REALYUNGPHIL, NIONTAY & SURF GANG - HALFTONES/AMNESIA

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Previous Industries - Pliers

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J'ai Compris - Voilaaa remix by Nana Benz du Togo

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AMINA - Mr Kurones remix by Nana Benz du Togo