Pastoral Scanlines

Nights (Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters) 30.12.2025 20:05 ↓

Part 4 of the essay 'Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters'. Full text on wrenasmir.com

Flowers (Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters) 30.12.2025 25:49 ↓

Part 3 of the essay 'Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters'. Full text on wrenasmir.com

Decades (Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters) 30.12.2025 29:45 ↓

Part 2 of the essay 'Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters'. Full text on wrenasmir.com

Bodies II (Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters) 30.12.2025 16:23 ↓

Second half of Part 1 of the essay 'Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters'. Full text on wrenasmir.com

Bodies I (Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters) 30.12.2025 19:49 ↓

Part 1 of the essay 'Everyone I Love is Alive in the Unlimited Present of the City and its Waters'. Full text on wrenasmir.com

Garden Monologue #2 07.01.2025 20:00 ↓

Leif and Katita listen to the radio while looking over the city of Newcastle as the sun sets on a hot summer's day.

Garden Monologue #1 07.01.2025 15:21 ↓

Leif and Katita take a trip to learn more about the invented food of a gardener in Western Australia.

Saltando 14.11.2024 10:09 ↓

A composer takes a coastal walk.

Leaving/Leading 16.06.2024 9:38 ↓

Post-ecological cartochoreography in Newcastle xoxoxo Leif and Katita return.

A Parallax of Tensor Sharding 16.06.2024 24:29 ↓

An essay on the finitude of self amid the emerging age of generative cultural infinity.

Sovereignty is an Artificial Soul 15.03.2024 37:17 ↓

On AI, post-art and the end of history.

Fellow Disjecta, Oh Sunny Danger Time 31.01.2024 1:15:17 ↓

Full, unabridged novella - 'Fellow Disjecta, Oh Sunny Danger Time'.

On nature and its mirrors (from 'Antinomicity') 22.01.2024 11:32 ↓

An extended passage from my novella Antinomicity on nature, walking down drains, sleeping on gas silos and the mirror this holds up to our internal empire.

Autoincorrect (live) 22.01.2024 5:50 ↓

A live recording of my poem 'Autoincorrect', shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2023.

Postseasonal 22.01.2024 11:11 ↓

On the synthesised past of the simulated future. A prose poem on nature, nostalgia and pixels.

Subject (Ontological Incompleteness) 22.01.2024 3:42 ↓

A short essay of a Hegelian take on subjectivity.

Prompt - A Radio Play for Two Voices 22.01.2024 6:14 ↓

A dramatic dialogue in the spirit of Beckett and Pinter.

A Billiard Table with Five Balls and Twelve Cues 22.01.2024 13:46 ↓

Late last decade, I found myself sitting in the foyer of the Shanghai Sunshine Rehabilitation Centre with a colleague from Orange and Mike, a man in his fifties, one of the organisers of the United Nations conference we were attending.

Peoplehood 22.01.2024 23:19 ↓

It is the eleventh of January and the new year is still fresh out of the oven. My daughter is with a friend and my wife is accompanying our son to preschool so I decide to enact an idea I have had for some months - to walk the length of Industrial Drive.