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Sep 26, 2024, 06:28AM

I Love Writing

A 2017 Rookie Mag interview with multi-hyphenate Jhené Aiko vs. a 2014 Crack Magazine interview with author/theorist Mark Fisher.

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Jhené Aiko: I think we are supposed to do stuff together, no one is supposed to do anything alone. That’s why we’re here with billions of others.

Mark Fisher: Yes, this is what I’m talking about in this book, and the melancholy is kind of about that.

Aiko: You just have to be around people that actually believe in you like you believe in you.

Fisher: I personally can’t help but be optimistic in lots of ways, but I think we have to avoid eventalism and thinking that sudden ruptures can come from nowhere.

Aiko: A lot of it came from my notebooks.

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Fisher: Appropriation is no longer signaled, it’s just assumed I think.

Aiko: But, it does help you with getting deadlines done and just having a structure and learning the history of the craft that you are pursuing.

Fisher: That is the way I’d like to see it.

Aiko: But, then I found myself just taking all English classes and no math to help me transfer.

Fisher: You know, my education didn’t come from school, which I hated, it came from reading NME.

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Aiko: I was editing it.

Fisher: Why?

Aiko: I love writing.

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Fisher: Quite what form the break will take, and when it’s going to come, I don’t quite know that.

Aiko: It all made sense because this whole process of me creating all of these projects has sort of served as a map for me, to help me find myself, to help me heal and navigate through my suffering and pain, and even love and joy.

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