Jacob Wren
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The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
"I want the freedom you take for granted. All the freedoms. The freedom to walk up this mountain and know it’s my home, to know it will survive, and also the freedom to tomorrow be on a tropical beach and forget this war for as long as I choose..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/exce...
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
"I want the freedom you take for granted. All the freedoms. The freedom to walk up this mountain and know it’s my home, to know it will survive, and also the freedom to tomorrow be on a tropical beach and forget this war for as long as I choose..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/exce...
"Destroy the Universe / With a solution."
- Mina Loy
- Mina Loy
January 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
"Destroy the Universe / With a solution."
- Mina Loy
- Mina Loy
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean Cocteau
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean Cocteau
"...a dying empire is a dangerous beast and will extract a big price in blood for its decline. The more desperate it becomes, the more reckless it grows, even without such a notoriously dozy, incompetent and self-aggrandising leadership."
- Richard Seymour
- Richard Seymour
January 6, 2026 at 12:18 AM
"...a dying empire is a dangerous beast and will extract a big price in blood for its decline. The more desperate it becomes, the more reckless it grows, even without such a notoriously dozy, incompetent and self-aggrandising leadership."
- Richard Seymour
- Richard Seymour
"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
January 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
Reposted by Jacob Wren
Don't let the fascists speak - Pat Parker
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January 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM
"There is no better place for hiding a secret than an unfinished novel."
- Italo Calvino
- Italo Calvino
January 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"There is no better place for hiding a secret than an unfinished novel."
- Italo Calvino
- Italo Calvino
I made a list of some of my favourite political novels: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/01/favo...
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
I made a list of some of my favourite political novels: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/01/favo...
“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
– Susan Sontag
– Susan Sontag
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
– Susan Sontag
– Susan Sontag
“I had mistaken many people for friends, for kindred spirits, not understanding they had chosen to leave conventional life, and I’d been thrown out.”
– Nate Lippens, Ripcord
– Nate Lippens, Ripcord
January 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
“I had mistaken many people for friends, for kindred spirits, not understanding they had chosen to leave conventional life, and I’d been thrown out.”
– Nate Lippens, Ripcord
– Nate Lippens, Ripcord
Reposted by Jacob Wren
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
"These may be the last days, but not even Armageddon is going to save us from growing up, and our learning curve remains steep."
- Greg Tate, Intelligence Data
- Greg Tate, Intelligence Data
January 4, 2026 at 1:25 AM
"These may be the last days, but not even Armageddon is going to save us from growing up, and our learning curve remains steep."
- Greg Tate, Intelligence Data
- Greg Tate, Intelligence Data
"War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."
– Don DeLillo, White Noise
– Don DeLillo, White Noise
January 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."
– Don DeLillo, White Noise
– Don DeLillo, White Noise
"To bring certain natural resources and labour into the jurisdiction of the global marketplace. To ensure these resources most benefit the capitalists doing the bombing and least benefit the people being bombed." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/06/beca...
January 3, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"To bring certain natural resources and labour into the jurisdiction of the global marketplace. To ensure these resources most benefit the capitalists doing the bombing and least benefit the people being bombed." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/06/beca...
"You’re going to write about us, but you’re never going to get it right. [...] Whatever you write might not do us much good, but from what I can tell, you’re sincere enough, so it probably also won’t do much harm." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/exce...
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
"You’re going to write about us, but you’re never going to get it right. [...] Whatever you write might not do us much good, but from what I can tell, you’re sincere enough, so it probably also won’t do much harm." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/exce...
"From the beginning he held the tragic position that the only revolution was the eternal revolution – an inexhaustible struggle for something already lost."
– Fanny Howe, Indivisible
– Fanny Howe, Indivisible
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
"From the beginning he held the tragic position that the only revolution was the eternal revolution – an inexhaustible struggle for something already lost."
– Fanny Howe, Indivisible
– Fanny Howe, Indivisible
"Happy the way he was when he read something that was sad but written euphorically."
- Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part
- Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
"Happy the way he was when he read something that was sad but written euphorically."
- Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part
- Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part
"Live with your century, but do not be its creature."
- Friedrich Schiller
- Friedrich Schiller
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Live with your century, but do not be its creature."
- Friedrich Schiller
- Friedrich Schiller
There is a specific passage from my book Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim that a few different people have posted online. From this I gather it might be something of a reader favourite. So, to end the year, I thought I’d post it as well: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/exce...
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
There is a specific passage from my book Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim that a few different people have posted online. From this I gather it might be something of a reader favourite. So, to end the year, I thought I’d post it as well: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/exce...
"The right of opacity becomes the right not the be understood, not to be reduced to epistemic violence of comprehension and judgement. Or, colloquially, 'You don’t know me; don’t pretend that you know me.'"
- James K. Stanescu (writing about Édouard Glissant)
- James K. Stanescu (writing about Édouard Glissant)
December 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"The right of opacity becomes the right not the be understood, not to be reduced to epistemic violence of comprehension and judgement. Or, colloquially, 'You don’t know me; don’t pretend that you know me.'"
- James K. Stanescu (writing about Édouard Glissant)
- James K. Stanescu (writing about Édouard Glissant)
Since the year is almost over I thought I would post this one last time - Some favourite things from my 2025: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/some...
December 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Since the year is almost over I thought I would post this one last time - Some favourite things from my 2025: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/some...
“Go ahead and live your life. You might be surprised. The world might continue.”
- Gwendolyn Brooks, from the poem Jane Addams
- Gwendolyn Brooks, from the poem Jane Addams
December 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Go ahead and live your life. You might be surprised. The world might continue.”
- Gwendolyn Brooks, from the poem Jane Addams
- Gwendolyn Brooks, from the poem Jane Addams
"And then there was you, the protagonist of your own singular dream. There is almost always you."
I’m currently serializing my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever. The above lines are from the fourth instalment.
I’m currently serializing my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever. The above lines are from the fourth instalment.
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"And then there was you, the protagonist of your own singular dream. There is almost always you."
I’m currently serializing my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever. The above lines are from the fourth instalment.
I’m currently serializing my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever. The above lines are from the fourth instalment.
I just discovered the music of Meet The Bug and now want everyone else to discover it too: meetthebug.bandcamp.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I just discovered the music of Meet The Bug and now want everyone else to discover it too: meetthebug.bandcamp.com
"There is no such thing as contradiction, only the fire that burns amidst the networks made up of them."
- Pope.L
- Pope.L
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"There is no such thing as contradiction, only the fire that burns amidst the networks made up of them."
- Pope.L
- Pope.L