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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 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
Surrealism: The unfinished revolution
Surrealism is not, has never been, and will never be a literary or artistic school but is a movement of the human spirit in revolt and an eminently subversive attempt to reenchant the world: an attempt to reestablish the “enchanted” … Continue reading
For Mário Cesariny
… true democracy will only be possible when all men are poets. But this … [is] … not democracy – but ANARCHY! António Maria Lisboa, “Uma carta de António Maria Lisboa”, in Mário Cesariny, A Intervenção Surrealista I believe in … Continue reading
Nature is the marvelous that the surrealist seeks
Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction … Continue reading
Surrealism: The Emergence of a Radical Experiential Reality
We share a rich essay by Luke Francis Beirne on the relations between surrealism and radical politics, published by the anarchist The Commoner (23/04/2022). ___ ‘Freedom is the only cause worth serving,’ Andre Breton, 1924 ‘It was in the black mirror … 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 →