The Thoughts and Experiences Of A Man Pretending To Be A Tree
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 [...]
Things I have Learnt Whilst Hallucinating At Work
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 [...]
For an Ecology of the Marvelous
Jesse Narens recently made this wonderful poster version of the 2018 For an Ecology of the Marvelous tract:
Why I wrote non-stop for 12 hours
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 [...]
WHAT IF… Against the settler-colonial state
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 [...]
A few cases of calendrical and nomenclatural confusion – Mattias Forshage
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 [...]
BLUNT LIKE AN IDEA
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 [...]
VERSATILE EYES
A new collection of collective games, dreams, and other nightmare effluvia from the Atlanta Surrealist Group. PRINT COPY FREE DIGITAL FILE
Hazel Cline – Spell Song
“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 [...]
The Surrealist Group in Australia – Burnin’ all illusion tonight
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 [...]
VERBOMANCY – DAN STANCIU & SASHA VLAD
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 [...]
The Aim of Surrealist Poetry
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 [...]
THA COMING ATLANTEAN INSURRECTION
“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 [...]
CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948) – A SPECIAL EDITION
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 [...]
SURREALISM IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
INTRODUCTION The marvelous here reveals itself in light of a surrounding aura of fertile life-and-death excess, brought on by an alchemy of merciless heat and humidity, storms, past military rule and cultural ruin. - Davey [...]