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All My Friends Are Fictional
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“In autoarachnology the auto refers to a self entangled in and constituted through its environments and experiences. Autoarachnology is not concerned with identity or the consolidated self. It understands the self as intrinsically linked to its context, constructed through its relations. […] "The self-enclosed individual is a fiction of Empire, just like the State. 'I' am already a crowd, enmeshed in others."”
— Jan 19, 2026 10:25AM
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All My Friends Are Fictional
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The feminist imagination carves out a site of agency that forms the impetus for action. It […] enables resistant acts to take place by dismantling hegemonic notions of what is permissible under current conditions. The imagination is central to the cultural production of revolutionary movements; its primary role is to signal what could be. […] It is an unwieldy phenomenon, and its currency is chaos.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:44PM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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“I think poetry is a method. A way of writing. But also a way of being that I need to be and stay close to. I would like to free poetics from the discipline of poetry. To claim poetics without claiming poet. I have never felt comfortable or confident with the label poet. I think there are poetic ways of seeing which transcend the functions of our eyes, that require us whole, present, in the world […].”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:39PM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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“I want knowledge you can sit a while in, knowledge that won't expel you for pontificating knowledge that knows there is no certitude in a political economy that wants you dead or worked to death or alive but not really here, or banished, […], or preoccupied with the violence done unto you […], or trapped by something as arbitrary as a border. Sorry, if the fantastic seems appealing. We're alive there.”
— Jan 26, 2026 11:30PM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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“We believe that conflict is not an aggression […], and that conflict is a necessity and an opportunity to do justice together and avoid polarization. And to also avoid the temptation to take justice into one's own hands, because that kind of situation displays or reconstructs violence, which is not acceptable for us. We think that we really have a collective responsibility when there is conflict.”
— Jan 26, 2026 11:23PM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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“The institution will always keep you busy, which keeps you away from the actual work.”
— Jan 26, 2026 12:41PM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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„I have broken the process of making work down into five distinct phases. […] The idea is that each phase, even if artificial, demands a different way of thinking and therefore a different way of collaborating.
These 5 phases are as follows:
1. Collaboratively conceptualizing work
2. Practical making
3. Documentation of process and work
4. Curatorial editing / Post-production
5. Exhibition & Dissemination“
— Jan 26, 2026 02:53AM
These 5 phases are as follows:
1. Collaboratively conceptualizing work
2. Practical making
3. Documentation of process and work
4. Curatorial editing / Post-production
5. Exhibition & Dissemination“
All My Friends Are Fictional
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„On questioning: Bayo Akomolafe writes about the potential of generative and humbling questions. Rather than using questions as a logical means to solving the world's problems, Akomolafe offers questioning as means of opening up to how we are already mattering and showing up in the world.“
— Jan 26, 2026 02:50AM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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„If our world is dying piece by piece without our publicity and collectively expressing our grief, we might easily assume that these losses aren't important.
When I speak of our heartbrokenness, I am trying to capture this sorrow that moves between individual grief and the consciousness of all that is so broken in our world [...] I don't believe we can build a different, better world without being heartbroken.“
— Jan 26, 2026 12:12AM
When I speak of our heartbrokenness, I am trying to capture this sorrow that moves between individual grief and the consciousness of all that is so broken in our world [...] I don't believe we can build a different, better world without being heartbroken.“
All My Friends Are Fictional
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„Dominant narratives about grief have turned gaslighting into an art form […]. At every turn, we are persuaded that grief is a wild, unacceptable emotion that must be handled, managed, overwritten, and hidden. We are pressured by political and even physical force to prioritize productivity over personal wellbeing, to seek eternity over embodied presence, even as we live through the most traumatic losses.“
— Jan 26, 2026 12:08AM
All My Friends Are Fictional
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„Translated into modern health and mental health practices, pain becomes a condition of individual problems and the elimination of it is the pathway to individual wellbeing and quality of life. You understand this as dominant ways of dealing with embodied problems where pain becomes an unwelcome presence in everyday life that must be regulated, managed, numbed, and eliminated.“
— Jan 26, 2026 12:07AM
