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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Williams, Arsenal #4 The American south is a weird place, filled to the brim with weird people. Yes, it’s a [...]
Technical possibility, if appropriately misinterpreted, is also an opening for the spectral imagination. My new favourite piece of speculative "Halloween Tech" (that is, perhaps, technology specifically engineered to facilitate haunting) is the Computer Witch. I discovered the Computer Witch, appropriately enough, while randomly watching a low resolution internet upload of the 1977 cartoon Halloween special [...]
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To Loiter: To delay an activity with aimless idle stop and pauses; Dawdle, to remain in an area for no obvious reason: hang around, to lag behind. Loiterer... Loitering is a crime, prosecutable and enforceable in many cases. It is most associated with private property rights along with soliciting and trespassing, but often, it is [...]
