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 [...]
On Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/…/mubling…/id1644539305), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3mdmnoe6fXDoa101FpL9eT), and other major podcast platforms. Episode 1: This, the inaugural episode of the surrealist podcast Mumbling Planet, includes FOUR marvels for your listening P L E A S U R E… A three-way cosmic interlocution, a glimpse through chthonic doors, a group juggling of sound and intestines, and a [...]
October 20-23 Atlanta, Georgia No Tomorrow Gallery (50 Upper Alabama Street) Event Schedule To Be Announced Shortly Surrealist exhibition, objects, games and events; Rituals, séances and magic! Communications beyond the ordinary channels! Readings and guided tours of the underground object museum, its wonders and its dangers! Musical entertainment for the benefit of soothing the unhinged [...]
“To have only a few years left on earth as a man is really no cause for alarm. Already I have begun considering the virtues of frogdom, and my only complaint is that I may not be able to report the last stages of my transformation. On the other hand, the oscillatory nature of the [...]
by Steven Cline The words in this book are spells. Spells. Yes, I mean this most sincerely. They leave little trace on Upthere Overmind. Ha, they swim right past that old tyrant. And they head straightaway down, on towards that treasured Undermind, towards Undermind’s longest left ear. It is here that they then lay all [...]
