Against the settler-colonial state - here and now, everywhere and everywhen. January 26 2025 Brothers and sisters, we have much business to transact so let’s get right down to it. We aim at the spiritual, political, industrial, and social. We want to work out our own destiny. (Worimi man Fred Maynard’s Inaugural address to [...]
A few cases of calendrical and nomenclatural confusion, hipy papy A celebration of what? It has been confusing, throughout 2024, to see several surrealists rallying to official celebrations, even state-run celebrations and celebrations that claim that this year represents the centennial of surrealism. A centenarian is allowed some confusion, and it’s probably not [...]
At that point of the mind where thought refracts into action and the subtle shiver of a synapse becomes a blunt object… SOMETHING still hovers above all nuanced rationalizations for the administration of empire. SOMETHING stirs for the total liberation of thought and life from the artificial constraints placed upon them by the so-called realisms [...]
A new collection of collective games, dreams, and other nightmare effluvia from the Atlanta Surrealist Group. PRINT COPY FREE DIGITAL FILE
“Spell Song is the first album by multimedia artist Hazel Cline, collected from years of recording experiments and ritual practice. Hazel’s sound world is a delicately textured one that feels familiar and elemental. She weaves a sonic text that blends quiet voiced mantras in an unknown tongue, birdsong, bottles, bells, wind and breath. Merging field [...]
Burnin’ all illusion tonight: the revolutionary struggle against colonial violence continues. In the wake of the police murder of 17-year-old, Nahel M, in Nanterre, the working-class youth of France and its external colonies have set the empire brilliantly aflame with their incandescent rage. President of the Rich, Macron, has called out his 45,000 dogs of [...]
A captivating new book of images and texts (or should we say, charms?) has appeared under the appropriate title of Verbomancy. A new kind of inverse prophecy appears here by means of a strange game. Rather than simply combine images and text in a predictable manner, Sasha Vlad began by finding or creating images [...]
By Craig Wilson The point of surrealist poetry is not to simply write something off the wall or weird...it's to break down the walls between your conscious and unconscious mind, to integrate different levels of the mental personality by tapping into the continuous stream of images flowing beneath the conscious threshold of the psyche. The [...]
“We shall, at great expense, set at the bottom of the water machines that have ceased to serve, and also a few others that began to serve, and it is a pleasure to see the mud voluptuously paralyzing what functioned so well. We are the creators of wrecks…We take our post of aquatic command of [...]
You’d have thought what with all the attention over the years, the surrealists would have pretty much hit the bottom in terms of “enlargements” for certain films. Surely Edna Romney’s 1948 cacklefest The Corridor of Mirrors has been done to death? And yet, it just happens that, while giving it a go on a cold [...]
