Jen Dorman
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Jen Dorman
“Truth revealed takes the unfortunate shape of everything that isn’t true.”
Richard Foreman, playwright + founder of Ontological-Hysteric Theater
“I’ve never been very happy about the world,” he confessed in a 2018 video interview for the Lower East Side Biography Project. “So what makes me tick is this obsessive need to figure out what isn’t here that I want to be here. I make plays — or whatever you want to call them — to try to fill that great big void.”
NYT, Richard Foreman obituary
The shock we’re experiencing now can’t be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is it a form of future shock, which happens when we feel that change is taking place too quickly. Instead, the shock we’re feeling today is an affront to our most basic understanding of reality. And the... See more
🏡 Shock and Awe
Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl said that a good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. // Culture and impact
In 1995, when he was 58, Mr. Foreman received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, popularly known as the “genius grant.” The foundation praised him for his “original vision and commitment to developing new theatrical vocabularies” that influenced the direction of American avant-garde theater.
NYT, Richard Foreman obituary
the most popular way to quell this unsettling sense of not-at-home-ness is by trying to make ourselves at home in the world, even if that looks like mostly distracting ourselves from the unsettling fact of our alienation.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
“For me ideas are coherent patterns of information that can be used for particular forms of action; either embodied action or to realize a particular form. This is the reason why I take the view that ideas are not memes. The meme originally defined by Richard Dawkins is a unit that competes with other memes in the same way that organisms are seen
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