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Tag Archives: Anthony Hayes
Surrealism: an irrational revolution
A PDF of this document can be found here. Note that there are some differences between the version presented below and pdf (most notably, the complete bibliography is only available in the pdf version). This has also been posted on … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Translation
Tagged Aimé Césaire, Alberto Giacometti, Alfred Jarry, André Breton, André Masson, Anthony Hayes, Antonin Artaud, Apollinaire, Arshile Gorki, Avida Dollars, Benjamin Péret, Braque, Cézanne, Charles Baudelaire, CNT-FAI, Comte de Lautréamont, critique, Dada, Der Blaue Reiter, Diego Rivera, Dostoyevsky, Ferdinand Alquié, Francis Picabia, French Communist Party, Freud, Gauguin, Gérard de Nerval, Georges Politzer, Georges Sadoul, Guy Debord, Hans Arp, Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Henri Michaux, Isidore Ducasse, Jacques Prévert, Jacques Rigaut, Jacques Vaché, Kandinsky, Leon Trotsky, Louis Aragon, Luis Buñuel, Malevich, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Marx, Marxism, Max Ernst, modern art, Nicolas Calas, Norbert Guterman, Oscar Dominguez, Paul Éluard, Paul Klee, PCF, Picasso, Pierre Mabille, Pierre Naville, poetry, POUM, psychoanalysis, Raymond Queneau, René Char, René Crevel, René Magritte, Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, Roberto Matta, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud, Stalinism, Stephane Mallarmé, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry, Toyen, translation, Tristan Tzara, Victor Brauner, Wolfgang Paalen, Yves Tanguy
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Aktion Surreal 1991-1994
Back in 2011 Gerald Keaney published a critical account of the group Aktion Surreal. Aktion Surreal (hereafter AS) was formed in late 1991 by myself and Gerald. Early the following year we launched the group on an unsuspecting world (ok, … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Research Notes
Tagged 1990s, Action Surreal, Aktion Surreal, Anthony Hayes, anti-art, ANU, art, artists, Australian National University, Canberra, Canberra 1990s, Gerald Keaney, National Gallery of Australia, performance poetry, philosophy, Piltdown Frauds, poetry, Revolution By Night, Sex-Pol, students, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry
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Smashing the fash with ideas
Mick Armstrong demonstrates, despite himself, that ideas and rational argument are central to the creation of a mass movement against creeping fascism and capitalism. However his argument tends to err on the side of a false dilemma: either rational argument or … Continue reading
Posted in Critique
Tagged alienation, Andrew Bolt, Anthony Hayes, anti-bigotry, anti-facism, anti-racism, Australia, communism, criticism, critique, culturalism, dialectics, Fascism, Gerald Keaney, Guy Debord, ideas, ideology, Karl Marx, Mick Armstrong, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, practice, racism, Red Flag, revolution, situationist, Socialist Alternative, society of the spectacle, Sonia Kruger, spectacle
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Stunted Publicity
“If a rock falls on your head it does positive harm, but shame, disgrace, reproaches and insults are damaging only in so far as you’re conscious of them. If you’re not, you feel no hurt at all. What’s the harm … Continue reading
Posted in Critique
Tagged Alastair Hemmens, alienation, Anthony Hayes, Bill Brown, Brendan Boehning, co-optation, Danish Society for Comparative Vandalism, Grant McDonagh, Guy Debord, ideology, integration, MARBLEPUNK, McKenzie Wark, modernist integration, NOT BORED!, open letter, récupération, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Ultrazine
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A Palinode for the Bureau
A little over two years ago I applauded Eric-John Russell’s review of Ken Knabb’s revised translation of The Society of the Spectacle, saying: Knabb’s attempt to make Debord’s work more accessible seems to have ossified it – perhaps inadvertently. On further reflection, … Continue reading →