How to Live Now or Never by Alejandro de Acost

Description

The two perform a dyadic acrobatic maneuver around the empty space where freedom, imagination, and possibility could exist in textual, temporal, and interpersonal relationships. Whereas The Impossible, Patience was serious play around nihilism and language, How to Live is a surreal anti-thesis “in the form of paradoxes, defending precisely the claims that seem most impossible or disagreeable to maintain.”

Table of Contents

Notes

IBU Perfect Ape

Anarchist Meditations

That Teaching is Impossible

Reading and Not Reading

Wandering off from Willful Disobedience

How You and I Might Meet

A Lesson in Desire

Love / Boredom

The space now spaced

Cynical Lessons

Absolute Typhos

Theses on the Superiority of the Dry Wit

Notes on Nothing

Points on Time and History

Failure, Resistance