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Tag Archives: Surrealism
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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Once more on Dada
100 years ago the word “Dada” was coined to name the riot of destructive possibility unfurling at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The “discovery” of the term is disputed by interested parties (now dead). One of the participants in the Parisian Dada group, … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, I.S. no. 10, Situationist International
Tagged André Breton, André Gide, Arthur Rimbaud, Asger Jorn, Computational poetry, Concrete poetry, Dada, Experimental poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Gruppe Spur, Hegel, Hierarchical Power, James Joyce, Ken Knabb, L'internationale situationniste, Lautréamont, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Bense, modern art, Mustapha Khayati, neo-Dada, Oulipo, Pierre Garnier, power, Raymond Queneau, situationist, Situationist International, Sophocles, Spartakusbund, Surrealism, Surrealist poetry, Tel Quel
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Toward the realisation of philosophy
Recently I presented a paper at a graduate history conference at the University of Sydney. The paper is called Toward the realisation of philosophy: The Situationist International between 1957 and 1960. It is brief and has a rather abrupt end. … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International
Tagged 5th Conference, alienation, André Breton, Asger Jorn, Attila Kotànyi, CoBrA, Constant Nieuwenhuis, constructed situation, critique, Dada, Grouppe Spur, Guy Debord, Hamburg Theses, internationale situationniste, Karl Marx, L'internationale situationniste, pdf, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, Situationist International, situationists, society of the spectacle, spectacle, Surrealism, unitary urbanism
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Plagiarism for all, not just boring poets!
from the conclusion: “we begin to find a real alternative to the plagiarism of Nunn and Slattery, and indeed any plagiaristic activity which by merely aping the ideology of the bourgeois ‘atom’ reinforces a false account of all creative activity. … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Research Notes, Situationist International
Tagged alienation, Andrew Slattery, Angry Penguins, Antony Lawrence, Arguments, collage, commodity, Comte de Lautreamont, crass Cartesianism, critique, cultural studies, Dada, détournement, Ern Malley, Gil J. Wolman, Graham Nunn, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, ideology, Ira Lightman, Isidore Ducasse, Justin Clemens, Karl Marx, Kenneth Goldsmith, L'internationale situationniste, labour-power, Les Chants de Maldoror, Les Lèvres Nues, M.T.C. Cronin, plagiarism, poetry, postmodernism, récupération, situationist, Situationist International, society of the spectacle, spectacle, surplus-value, Surrealism, theft, value
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