Archive - A Lie Before Its Time

A Dialogue with Jonathan Meese

“Art is Total Order! Art is the Total Order of the future! Art is the most radical future! Art is Total Love! Art is Total Respect!”

Jun 2 • Ross Simonini

April 2026

On Painting, Time, Henri Bergson, and Roger White

Apr 3 • Ross Simonini

March 2026

A Dialogue with Anthea Hamilton

"I Want Everything to Happen at Once”

Mar 2 • Ross Simonini

February 2026

An Interview with Thom Yorke

On reading, carbon, and albums as art

Feb 2 • Ross Simonini

January 2026

On the Vitality of All Things

A conversation with Jane Bennett on Artists, Hoarders, Kafka's doodles, and Paracelsus.

Jan 4 • Ross Simonini

December 2025

A Dialogue with Olga Balema

There is No Outside of Language

Dec 7, 2025 • Ross Simonini

November 2025

Bless the Phone

On ritual, attention, and transforming the profane into a site of quiet wonder.

Nov 2, 2025 • Ross Simonini

October 2025

A World of Mystery and Harm

A Dialogue with Thomas Ligotti on horror, antinatalism and pessimism

Oct 15, 2025 • Ross Simonini

September 2025

An experiment in Painting, Belief, and Fire

Sep 24, 2025 • Ross Simonini

August 2025

An interview with Will Oldham

On anti-intellectualism, anti-ownership, and agitprop

Aug 26, 2025 • Ross Simonini

July 2025

On writing as performance

A dialogue with Jesse Ball, new music and drawing

Jul 27, 2025 • Ross Simonini

June 2025

Better Than Satisfaction

My Years Spent Doing What I Hated

Jun 22, 2025 • Ross Simonini