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QOQQOON (cocoon) is a webzine for writing by artists. We also republish hard-to-find pdfs online. In our current issue (#4), we are thinking about compromise. Submissions are welcome. Edited by Leigh Tennant and Steven Cottingham. Published on unceded territories (Vancouver, Canada) since 2018. ISSN 2563-4364.

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QOQQOON/Clinique (of less compromise)
QOQQOON/Clinique (of less compromise)Clinique (of less compromise)
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07/01/2020
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QOQQOON/Clinique (of less compromise)

Prohibition has openly mutated to what both Freud and Lacan had revealed as its truth: a will to jouissance, a push to enjoy, to…
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QOQQOON/Trashitas
QOQQOON/TrashitasTrashitas
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01/01/2020
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QOQQOON/Trashitas

The more saints, the more laughter; that’s my principle, to wit, the way out of capitalist discourse—which will not constitute progress, if it happens…
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QOQQOON/All things being singular (Mad in craft)
QOQQOON/All things being singular (Mad in craft)All things being singular (Mad in craft)
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05/01/2019
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QOQQOON/All things being singular (Mad in craft)

I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft. –William Shakespeare, Hamlet This essay will take a closer look at what is an…
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QOQQOON/A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document
QOQQOON/A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum DocumentA Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document
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03/10/1995
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QOQQOON/A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document

Terry Smith: There are very few artists still practicing now whose work, however transformed, remains shaped—in its basic parameters, perhaps—by that moment in the…
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QOQQOON/The Means of Discursive Production
QOQQOON/The Means of Discursive ProductionThe Means of Discursive Production
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05/01/2019
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QOQQOON/The Means of Discursive Production

The predominant mode of production in art after the rise of conceptualism can be understood as a process of discursive argumentation. This era has…