“The traditional model of creation → completion has, in many cases, given way to something more fluid, recursive, and continuous. The endurance of the idea… its refusal to conclude… is the work itself. Social media provides a stage for this endlessness, allowing the performance to loop…loop…loop…”

Agnes Martin, untitled, 1960, ink on paper.

“I NO LONGER KNOW IF I EVER FALL ASLEEP. IF I DO, I remain outside of sleep itself, in that constantly moving ring of icy asteroids that circles the dark and immobile hollow of oblivion. It is as if I never enter that shadowy vacuum. I toss and turn, literally, in the zone around it”

César Aira

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

Costco now has Novavax shots. There’s a location on East 117th Street—I am *there* as soon as I can make an appointment!

I’m finding it hard to feel buoyant and optimistic about writing this morning when things everywhere are so disastrous.

It seems we are foraging.

Today I looked up at one of those early October brilliant blue skies that grace New York.

One might say that I looked up from my phone, from this other kind of Bluesky which feeds me all the madness of the world.

This is the way.

I have too many books. Three more are on the way.

“Expect to see more dictatorships.”
Sean Ashton, Massive Massive Oil Slick.

A mysterious package from a friend, a strange book, the river, coffee, the rapture, a moon snail, what to suppose, expect, and avoid:

This week I tell a story of reading a book that cast an entangling spell.

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Robert Lax

And this matter of the commas.

- Renata Adler, PITCH DARK

I’ve been thinking of handwriting lately, especially as it might change the feeling of the internet.

It’s worth loving poetry.

9527 words on Gertrude Stein.

It just keeps getting worse.

We're especially excited to share, from our #ReadingList, some critical formulations for computer-assisted writing. From @criticalai-journal.bsky.social and Dispersed Holdings @salrandolph.bsky.social, Kyle Booten's concept of Word Gyms is of definite interest to us here at re•mediate!

NYC Tonight!

I’ll be reading at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.

Come for Filip Marinovich, The Ghost Shepherds, Eddie Berrigan and our host, Bathtub Nebula — stay for me!

Thursday September 18 7:30-9:30 Unnameable Books 615 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn

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I’m really thankful for Bluesky. It’s honestly been really nice hanging out here these past couple of years. Early Twitter vibes, but also more than that. I mean, I’m not going anywhere. Just sayin.’
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