Surrealist Subversions

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Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Autonomedia
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Summary

Cultural Writing. Critical Essays and art. This volume contains over 200 texts by more than fifty participants in the U.S. Surrealist Movement, making this the most comprehensive, diverse and lavishly illustrated compilation of American surrealist writings to have ever been assembled. This anthology "supersedes the narrow and tiresome literary/artistic categorizations to which surrealism is usually assigned by critics, and situates it in the much broader context that surrealists themselves have always preferred: the revolutionary context" - from the Foreword by Franklin Rosemont. Editor Ron Sakolsky is the co-editor of two other Autonomedia anthologies: GONE TO CROATAN: THE ORIGINS OF NORTH AMERICAN DROP-OUT CULTURE and SOUNDING OFF!: MUSIC AS SUBVERSION/ RESISTANCE/ REVOLUTION also available from SPD.

Table of Contents

Foreword 15(4)
Franklin Rosemont
Acknowledgements 19(4)
Introduction---Surrealist Subversion in Chicago 23(86)
Ron Sakolsky
Warning to the Reader: A Note on the Texts 109(4)
I. THE SURREALIST ADVENTURE
Total Nonconformism, Insubordination, & Revolution as the Way to a Non-Repressive Civilization
What Is Surrealism?
The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.: Now's the Time
113(2)
Surrealism = MC2
115(3)
Penelope Rosemont
Surrealism & Revolution
118(9)
Franklin Rosemont
Did Freud Ever Ask?
127(2)
Paul Garon
Women & Surrealism
129(3)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Surrealism & Black African Art
132(2)
Cheikh Tidiane Sylla
Freedom Now Sweet: Surrealism & the Black World
134(17)
Robin D. G. Kelley
The Surrealist Image of Humankind
151(5)
Ivan Svitak
Liberating the Imaginary, By Any Means Necessary
156(2)
Anne Olson
First Steps: Surrealism in the U.S. in the 1960s
The Chicago Surrealist Group: The Forecast Is Hot!
158(2)
A New International for the Overthrow of Everything
160(1)
Charles Radcliffe
The Editors of Surrealist Insurrection: Introduction to 1968
161(1)
Bugs Bunny's Surrealist Revenge
162(2)
Bernard Marszalek
Proposition for a Black Power Manifesto
164(3)
Ted Joans
Manifesto---The Position & Direction of the Surrealist Movement in the United States
167(8)
Franklin Rosemont
The Editors of Arsenal: Introduction to Lautreamont
175(1)
The Editors of Arsenal: Revolutionary Women
176(1)
The Editors of Arsenal: Malcolm X
177(1)
Poetry, Freedom & Love
Waking in Eden
178(1)
Rikki Ducornet
Absolute Divergence & the Actualization of the Marvelous
179(4)
Franklin Rosemont
Between the Gulfs
183(1)
Philip Lamantia
A Revolution in the Way We Think and Feel---Conversations with Leonora Carrington
184(6)
Penelope Rosemont
The Invisible Beam of Freedom
190(2)
Schlechter Duvall
Leon Damas---Human Writes Poetry
192(2)
Jayne Cortez
Women, Love, & Revolution
194(3)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Dancing on a Tightrope
197(1)
Jennifer Bean
The Last Days
198(3)
Joseph Jablonski
Surrealist Games: Play as the Collective Shaping of a New Reality
The Only Game in Town
201(3)
Franklin Rosemont
Latent News:
Luncheon Planned
204(1)
Franklin Rosemont
A Growing Crisis
205(1)
Don LaCoss
The New Lotto Game
206(1)
Rikki
Guy Ducornet
The Exquisite Corpse
207(1)
Paul Garon
Exquisite Corpse Stories
The Chairman of Absinthe
208(2)
Philip Lamantia
A Strong Statement
210(1)
Gale Ahrens
Question & Answer
Incidents in the Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
210(1)
Joseph Jablonski
Further News from Nowhere
211(1)
Franklin
Penelope Rosemont
Surrealist Occupational Index
212(3)
Paul Garon
What Is It?
215(2)
Anne Olson
Time-Travelers' Potlatch
217(6)
Gale Ahrens
If He/She Were a Flower
223(3)
Louise Simons
What's Wrong with This Picture?
226(2)
Penelope Rosemont
Dreaming Revolution: Surrealism Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
New Desires, New Revolutionary Potentials
228(2)
Martha Sonnenberg
The Future of Surrealism
230(2)
Philip Lamantia
Nancy Joyce Peters
Andre Breton---The Spirit of Revolt
232(2)
Franklin Rosemont
Life & Love in Conditions of Liberty
234(3)
Eugenio F. Granell
Opening the Doors of Creativity for All
237(3)
Tristan Meinecke
Transcending Bourgeois Misery
240(1)
David Roediger
Specialists in Revolt, Specialists Against Specialization
241(2)
Paul Garon
Our Demand is for Everything
243(1)
Christopher K. Starr
A New Model of Freedom
244(1)
Robert Green
Breaking the Chains of Gender
245(2)
Penelope Rosemont
Where Art & Revolution Intersect
247(4)
Bertha Husband
Dreaming, Playing, & Breaking Up the Existing Order
251(1)
Gale Ahrens
Why I am a Surrealist
252(2)
Jordan West
Sure, Really We Are
254(2)
Ted Joans
A Man or a Stone or a Tree
256(5)
Franklin Rosemont
II. THE SURREALIST CRITIQUE
The Unfettered Imagination vs. Misery & Miserabilism
Capitalist Civilization: The Global Prison
The Chicago Surrealist Group: In Defense of Dionysius---Why We Spit on the Space Race
261(1)
The Chicago Surrealist Group: It Is Time to Destroy All the Bastilles in the World
262(2)
Abolish All Prisons! Stop the Genocide!
264(5)
Gale Ahrens
The Illegality of Despair---A Brief Survey of the Literature of Narcotics Addiction
269(4)
Paul Garon
Murderous Humanitarianism Strikes Again! The U.S. AIDS Crisis in Africa
273(3)
Ronnie Burk
The Editors of Arsenal: Life in These United States---The Move Massacre
276(1)
The Chicago Surrealist Group: War Is the Happy Hour of Those Who Are Drunk on Power
277(1)
Against the Degradation of Language: Exposing the False Poets & the Miserabilist Media
Mainstream Statement
278(1)
Jayne Cortez
World Revolution & the Outcome of Poetry
279(4)
Franklin Rosemont
Poetic Matters---A Critique of the ``New American Poetics''
283(8)
Philip Lamantia
Patriarchy & Sexual Oppression
What Is a Woman?
291(4)
Leonora Carrington
The Crisis of Eros
295(2)
Franklin Rosemont
Poetry & Psychoanalysis in the Struggle Against Patriarchy
297(6)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Leftist Resistance to Women's Liberation
303(1)
Paul Garon
The Need for the Non-Rational
304(1)
Jan Hathaway
The Emancipatory Potential of Gay & Lesbian Struggles
305(1)
Robin D. G. Kelley
Is It a Woman or a Bird or a Fire?
306(2)
Penelope Rosemont
Work: Terror & Boredom at the Point of Production
Love of Work & Fear of Play
308(7)
Paul Garon
The War on Leisure
315(5)
Joseph Jablonski
A Marxist Argument for Sloth
320(2)
David Roediger
The Psychopathology of Work
322(3)
Penelope Rosemont
The Lie of Whiteness
What's Ugly
325(1)
Jayne Cortez
For the Total Demystification of the Oppressive White System
326(1)
Ted Joans
Plotting Against Eurocentrism---The Surrealist Map of 1929
327(7)
David Roediger
Roots of the White Problem
334(3)
Franklin Rosemont
Work and the White Male Mystique
337(2)
Penelope Rosemont
Rene Crevel, Surrealist Critic of White Patriarchy
339(5)
Myrna Bell Rochester
From Drapetomania to The Bell Curve---Psychiatry's White Problem
344(6)
Paul Garon
Are You Crazy? Mental Illness & the Belief in Whiteness
350(3)
Daniel C. Boyer
Racist Cliches in the U.S.A.
353(3)
Ronnie Burk
How to Wreck the White Power Structure
356(2)
J. Allen Fees
Disrupting Whiteness
358(1)
Gale Ahrens
Surrealist Gumption & Race Politics
359(2)
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Religion as Repression
Women Against Religion
361(1)
Debra Taub
Sparks Sleeping in the Ashes---The Heresy & History of Love
362(5)
Nancy Joyce Peters
The Marvelous vs. the Sacred
367(2)
Anne Olson
Against the Academic God-Seekers
369(2)
Joseph Jablonski
9--11 and the Theologies of Terror
371(3)
Don LaCoss
The Destruction of Wilderness
The Chicago Surrealist Group: The Anteater's Umbrella---A Contribution to the Critique of the Ideology of Zoos
374(2)
An Unjust Dominion
376(1)
Gina Litherland
Hal Rammel
Workers of the World, Be Wild!
377(5)
Franklin Rosemont
The Editors of Arsenal: Let There Be Wolves!
382(1)
The Editors of Arsenal: No Jails for Whales!
383(1)
The Editors of Arsenal: Hands Off Antarctica!
383(1)
A Voice from the Trees
384(2)
Beth Garon
Official Art: The Aesthetics of Repressive Desublimation
The Chicago Surrealist Group: No Hits, No Runs, All Errors---Claes Oldenburg's ``Batcolumn''
386(1)
Against the Art Racket
387(2)
Robert Green
Dali? A Surrealist?
389(1)
Ted Joans
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Surrealism Is Elsewhere
390(2)
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Point-Blank---Homage to Valerie Solanas
392(1)
The Chicago Surrealist Group: What Are You Dreaming?
393(2)
Critique of the Traditional Left
Toward a Politics of the Pleasure Principle
395(2)
Penelope Rosemont
Youth Revolt---The Disquiet Factor
397(2)
Charles Radcliffe
The Masses, Old & New---A Critique
399(5)
Martha Sonnenberg
Notions of Youth Culture
404(3)
Martha Sonnenberg
Paul Buhle
The McJob's Untold Story---Redefining Politics from the So-Called Margins of Struggle
407(4)
Robin D. G. Kelley
Aime Cesaire & Negritude---An Introduction
411(4)
Dale Tomich
Aime Cesaire
415(1)
Penelope Rosemont
Letters to Chicago Surrealists
416(4)
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse, Surrealism & Us
420(3)
Paul Buhle
The Chicago Surrealist Group: A Tribute to E. P. Thompson
423(1)
Conflicting Views of Surrealism and Revolution---Raoul Vaneigem vs. Robin D. G. Kelley
424(8)
Don LaCoss
Poetic Politics & the Withering Away of Whiteness
432(5)
David Roediger
III. Surrealist Action
Social Transformation as Festival
Realization of Poetry in Everyday Life
The Editors of Free Spirits: Opening Declaration
437(1)
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Why Say No?
438(1)
Notes Toward a Rigorous Interpretation of Surrealist Occultation
438(3)
Philip Lamantia
The Continuation of Poetry by Other Means
441(3)
Franklin Rosemont
Larry's Time
444(1)
Jayne Cortez
A Smart New Star
445(2)
Jen Besemer
The Chicago Surrealist Group: A River's Revenge---Surrealist Implications of the Great Flood of 1992
447(3)
Defending the Marvelous
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Maxwell Street Forever!
450(3)
Surrealism---Encountering Freedom
453(2)
Gerome Kamrowski
Your World, Not Mine
455(7)
Casandra Stark Mele
The Monstrous & the Marvelous
462(1)
Rikki Ducornet
Journey to the End of the Pond
463(7)
Paul Garon
The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.: For Tyree Guyton
470(2)
Subverting the Institutions of Unfreedom
The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.: 1976---End of the ``American Way of Life''
472(2)
Toxic Mall Syndrome
474(4)
Erin Saralee Snow
The Editors of Arsenal: Why Not Try Monkeywrenching?
478(1)
For the Immediate Destruction of All High-Rises
479(4)
Robert Green
Revolt of the Provotariat
483(2)
Charles Radcliffe
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Three Days That Shook the New World Order---The Los Angeles Rebellion
485(15)
The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.: Who Needs the WTO?
500(2)
Seattle 1999---Just the Beginning
502(2)
Daniel C. Boyer
The Savage Eye: Liberating the Visual Imagination
Discovering New Worlds---The Mimeogram
504(3)
Penelope Rosemont
The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.: Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of Desire---Announcing the World Surrealist Exhibition
507(4)
Wifredo Lam
511(1)
Claude Tarnaud
Eugenio Granell
512(1)
Claude Tarnaud
From Behind the Sphinx
513(2)
Eugenio Granell
Gerome Kamrowski
515(1)
Philip Lamantia
Homage to Bosch
516(2)
Ted Joans
Lewis Carroll, Photographer
518(2)
Rikki Ducornet
The Spirit of Unity---For Freedom
520(1)
Cheikh Tidiana Sylla
Poems of the Inner World
521(1)
Clarence John Laughlin
First Principles of Surrealism & Photography
522(3)
Clarence John Laughlin
My Vehicle of Transit
525(1)
Leonora Carrington
Unrestricted Images---A Continuous Flow of Energy
526(1)
Patrick Turner
My Photocollages
527(1)
Jan Hathaway
The Personal Is Astronomical---The Collages of Jan Hathaway
528(2)
Franklin Rosemont
Surrounding Area
530(2)
Laura Corsiglia
Outsiders
A Pleasure-Dome in Los Angeles---Simon Rodia and the Watts Towers
532(3)
Clarence John Laughlin
Wolfi KO's Dali
535(3)
Ted Joans
Traditional Arts & Untamed Genius
538(9)
Pat Ferrero
Nancy Joyce Peters
Spontaneous Sculpture & the Law of Entropy
547(2)
Robert Green
Hannah Cahoon, the Mirror of Equality
549(4)
Joseph Jablonski
Henry Darger, Homer of the Mad
553(3)
Joseph Jablonski
Ody Saban, Surrealist & Outsider
556(3)
Penelope Rosemont
Joseph Yoakum's Landscapes of Desire
559(2)
Penelope Rosemont
Images of Desire in Motion
The Question of Desire
561(1)
Jennifer Bean
Everything Can Be Transformed
562(1)
Jayne Cortez
(In)Visible Woman---Surrealism & Dance
563(1)
Alice Farley
Alice Farley at Land's End
564(2)
Philip Lamantia
Dance & the Transformation of the World
566(3)
Debra Taub
Bread & Roses---& Puppets, Too
569(1)
Franklin Rosemont
The Ideal Television
570(1)
Ivan Svitak
Teducation Films
571(2)
Ted Joans
Long Live the Living! Les Blank's Always for Pleasure
573(2)
Nancy Joyce Peters
From Horror to Humor: Surrealism's Popular Accomplices
Backyard Bombs---Horror Movies on TV
575(5)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Radio Voices---A Child's Bed of Sirens
580(10)
Philip Lamantia
Bugs Bunny & Dialectics
590(2)
Franklin Rosemont
The Dozens
592(3)
Robin D. G. Kelley
A Long Journey to the Hip-Hop Nation
595(2)
David Roediger
Lord Buckley---Laughter in the Face of All Capitulation
597(3)
Joseph Jablonski
Surrealism & Its Popular Accomplices---Buster Keaton, George Herriman, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Milt Gross, Carl Barks
600(7)
Franklin Rosemont
Confronting Mickey Mouse from the Elsewhere of Hong Kong---A Note on the New Hong Kong Cinema
607(3)
Miriam Hansen
Jose Guadalupe Posada
610(1)
Gale Ahrens
Black Music: Sounds of the History of Freedom
The Surrealist Movement: Surrealism & Blues
611(2)
Blues & the Poetry of Revolt
613(8)
Paul Garon
The Interpretation of Dreams---Surrealism & the Blues
621(4)
Paul Garon
Blues & the Poetic Criticism of Poetry
625(1)
Paul Garon
Beth Garon
Taking the Blues Back Home
626(1)
Jayne Cortez
There It Is
627(2)
Jayne Cortez
Charlie Parker: Embracing the Marvelous
629(1)
Ted Joans
Black Music & the Surrealist Revolution
630(10)
Franklin Rosemont
The Art Ensemble of Chicago---All About Freedom
640(5)
Robin D. G. Kelley
Bob Marley & the Reggae Revolution
645(2)
Joseph Jablonski
Other Musics: Disturbing the ``Peace''
Music from Bali
647(1)
Joseph Jablonski
Harry Partch, An Unheard Of Music
648(2)
Norman Kaeseberg
Spike Jones---Dandruff in the Longhair of Music
650(2)
Hal Rammel
Taking Chances & Raising the Stakes
A Dream
652(1)
Rikki Ducornet
Surrealist Implications of Chance
653(3)
Joseph Jablonski
Objective Chance---Heartbeats of the Marvelous
656(3)
Franklin Rosemont
Peter Ibbetson and the Exaltation of Love
659(1)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Surrealist Precognition
660(1)
Joseph Jablonski
Poetry Music Technology
661(1)
Jayne Cortez
Revolution By Chance
662(3)
Penelope Rosemont
Rebel Workers & Utopian Dreamers: Reclaiming the Past
Covington Hall & the Republic of the Imagination
665(3)
David Roediger
T-Bone Slim, Workingclass Jokester
668(2)
David Roediger
Mary Hunter Austin
670(2)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Remembering C. L. R. James
672(2)
Mary Low
C. L. R. James & Pan-African Revolt
674(1)
Robin D.G. Kelley
C. L. R. James & Herman Melville
675(2)
David Roediger
William Blake & E. P. Thompson
677(3)
Paul Buhle
Paschal Beverly Randolph---Affectional Alchemy and Utopia
680(5)
Franklin Rosemont
Voltairine de Cleyre---Poet of Anarchy
685(2)
Franklin Rosemont
Clark Ashton Smith
687(1)
Nancy Joyce Peters
rusel jaque, Vagabard & Cosmosan
688(2)
Nancy Joyce Peters
Surrealist Inquiries: Questioning Everything
What Should Be Done With the White House?
690(1)
Holidays: Before & After the Revolution
691(6)
Appendix: A Few Words from Our Critics 697(11)
Principal Sources of the Texts in this Book 708(1)
Bibliography 709(20)
Index 729

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