The following game text was sent to us by Justin Orlando Though we may differ in various facets of belief, we are united by a common quest. The liberation of the imagination, the irrational and subconscious sublimated half of us needed to create an absolute/surreal world. It's under the auspice of this ideal, that I [...]
Now available from Coach House Books and bookstores, a stunning new journey into the oneiric wonderland from S.D. Chrostowska: In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. "S. D. Chrostowska achieves unexpected buoyancy in spite of the intensity of her material. Permission, certain [...]
“Either this is madness or it is hell.’ ‘It is neither,’ replied the voices of the sphere, ‘it is simply more reality.” Fresh on the heels of Mattias Forshage's new novel... Another surrealist, dimension-hopping novella by Merl Fluin has just been released online for free! Having already read it, we can confirm it is a [...]
A story about everyday life in the Arctic, and more specifically the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. At the far end of the railroad, the world begins. Once there, you can’t be sure which is the direction towards civilisation. Maybe it is geese or lemmings that are regular people, and you are a mad person [...]
Casi Cline has recently released a new book "The Star Opens Slowly: Dreams, Poems, and Other Things", a collection of texts spanning the years 2015-2019. A Mormyrid Double! Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/w8shhua
by Craig Wilson Originally published in the Arabic-language surrealist journal "The Room" Urban exploration has been an important part of surrealism since the movement’s early days as you can see in Breton’s Nadja or Aragon’s Paris Peasant. This notion of exploration diverges from the usual activity of ‘going somewhere’ in that the terrain provides the [...]
We believe surrealists are still seeking, in their many courses, that elusive document: the New Declaration of The Rights of All People…Letters of green worms on an obsidian parchment… A fundamental axiom in this document-to-come must necessarily be the unalienable right to the radical imagination in all its manifestations and processes. This means, above all, [...]
Ottawa Surrealist Group is pleased to announce that they have just hatched a new little book of surrealist games, inquiries and other oddities with Peculiar Mormyrid Press: You can order it online from here: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ottawa-surrealist-group/the-object-beautician-and-other-terrors/paperback/product-1gqddgjg.html And here is a free PDF version: https://peculiarmormyrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ottawa_1.pdf
liberation in three parts THE LIBERATION OF THE WORLD “Amok” is the most beautiful word that we have. What better? Under Amok, Empire is finally seen true. Is discovered as mere opening out onto void. As the worst kind of tulpa. Real life? Elsewhere. Our slavish despair is soon transmuted—into joyous rage. We find the [...]
"The street, which I believed could offer my life its surprising detours, the street with its uneasiness and its glances, was my true element; there as nowhere else I caught the breath of the possible." - André Breton The time has come to stop pretending Medium isn’t actually the Message. Haven’t you felt it? Intuited [...]
