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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Zosia Brom: Anarchism in the Mainstream
Love, sympathy and self-sacrifice certainly play an immense part in the progressive development of our moral feelings. But it is not love and not even sympathy upon which Society is based in mankind. It is the conscience — be it … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The End of Judaism
One cannot understand the meaning of what is taking place in Israel today if one does not understand that Zionism constitutes a double negation of the historical reality of Judaism. Not only does it in fact transfer to the Jews … Continue reading
Annie Le Brun on Surrealism
… the worst thing would be for surrealism, turned on its head, would be to make us forget the extent to which “the flora and fauna of surrealism are unmentionable”, but also that the quality of the air we breathe … Continue reading
Surrealism as seen by the other: Walter Benjamin
Since Bakunin, Europe has lacked a radical concept of freedom. The Surrealists have one. They are the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of freedom, because they are convinced that ‘freedom, which on this earth can only be bought … Continue reading
The surrealist film-eye
In the hands of a free spirit the cinema is a magnificent and dangerous weapon. . . . The creative handling of film images is such that, among all means of human expression, its way of functioning is most reminiscent … Continue reading
When the “surrealist object” becomes a “surrealist self”: Claude Cahun
I’m an asocial rebel and a revolutionary dreamer,” she writes, “and do not fit any political party; my religion is paganism, including inspired figures such as Socrates, Buddha, and Kropotkin; and my (dialectical) method of thinking is taken from Heraclitus, … Continue reading
Surrealism and the art of making surrealist objects
Poetry must be made by all, not by one. Comte de Lautréamont In poetry and in painting, Surrealism has done everything it can and more to increase these short circuits. It believes, and it will never believe in anything more … Continue reading
Surrealism in the Mirror of Anarchism
Man proposes and disposes. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.Poetry teaches him to. It bears … Continue reading
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André Breton: A Surrealist Manifesto
… make no mistake about it, those responsible for putting this philtre of the absolute into circulation are the enemies of order. They pass it round secretly, under the eyes of the police, in the guise of books and poems. … Continue reading
Fell in Love with Fire
A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile, from the CrimethInc. collective (21/10/2024). Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months … Continue reading →