by Joseph Simpkins On Friday the 1st of August I journeyed out into the morning rain with an umbrella and a plastic box. My destination was St. Ann’s Square, only a short walk away from where I live in Manchester. When I arrived, I found an agreeable spot within the square that wasn’t too central, [...]
by Joseph Simpkins The office is the least likely place you’d expect to encounter the marvellous. In this dungeon, built upon layers and layers of bureaucracy, the worker shuffles into their drab desk. They slave away (or at least try to make it look like they are slaving away) so that they can avoid getting [...]
Jesse Narens recently made this wonderful poster version of the 2018 For an Ecology of the Marvelous tract:
By J. D. Halcro On the 21st of September 2024 I wrote non-stop for twelve hours. I set up a desk in Cecil Square, Margate, between two bus stops. On my desk I had a sign that read: I am writing non-stop for twelve hours ! PLEASE HELP ! Tell me your dreams, secrets, confessions, [...]
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 [...]
