Alex Dobrenko

So, there’s the trick. The path to taste is really as simple as writing a little plus and minus in the margin more often. If we apply this to digital space, we can turn them from an overwhelming and chaotic bombardment into a steady stream of things we find beautiful, that in turn, can define our tastes. For me, Are.na is a space for this kind of... See more

Remember that Kathy Acker was big on task work, too: “I really didn’t want any creativity,” she said, “so I set up this task, this nutty task basically, and I’d do it!”

Excerpt from a 1976 interview of Anaïs Nin by Jeffrey Bailey of New Orleans Review:

NOR

We seem now to be swept by a tide of nostalgia, a series of tides, really. How do you react to this? Are you nostalgic?

NIN

No, I’m really not. I love my present life, I love the people who visit me now. I’m much more interested in experiencing new cycles than in... See more