Tag Archive for Series: Surrealism

Dreams of Arson & the Arson of Dreams: Surrealism in ‘68

Emila Medkova Dvojnik denik clanek solo

In a soci­ety that has abol­ished every kind of adven­ture the only adven­ture that remains is to abol­ish that soci­ety. —Anonym­ous striker graf­fiti, Paris (May, 1968) …and this ol’ world ain’t got no back door. —The Marve­lettes, “Des­tin­a­tion: Any­where” (1968) So many stud­ies of surrealism’s activ­it­ies after the Second World War por­tray the events of 1968 as…

The (Surrealist) Platform of Prague — The Vessels Always Communicate

Pargue Masked Protest 68

The cur­rent declar­a­tion, rat­i­fied by all of our friends, was drawn up in Prague by the mem­bers of the Sur­real­ist Group in that city and those surre­alists who had come from France, between 5 and 18 April 1968, to take part in a series of events organ­ised around the exhib­i­tion The Pleas­ure Prin­ciple. The writers first placed…

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: A Cannibal, Surreal & Subaltern Approach to Human Rights

Sliced-Censored-Version-by-Inanis

This paper explores – briefly – four ideas: the concept of the ‘turn to emo­tions’, the notion of a can­ni­bal the­ory, legal sur­real­ism and the sub­al­tern per­spect­ive on human rights. How we are to think and feel human rights today? This ques­tion is situ­ated in a spe­cific his­tor­ical con­text, that of our times, which is defined here as the age of…

Manifesto of Legal Surrealism

Max Ernst - Elephant (1921)

First Mani­festo (1988) The ped­agogy of the ima­gin­ary: per­spect­ives of late sur­real­ism for legal teach­ing Not long ago I took part in an aca­demic selec­tion for the chair of Polit­ical Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of Buenos Aires. The examin­ing board expressed that it could not assess my ped­ago­gic pro­posal for it was too innov­at­ive, its effi­ciency had…

An Introduction: Legal Surrealism

Acephale

We thought it might be an inter­est­ing idea of post a num­ber of texts of a legal sur­real­ism. We will pub­lish a series of texts from and on the jur­idical writ­ings of sur­real­ism. As a jur­is­pru­dence it has, essen­tially, been writ­ten out of the canon. How­ever, if time is taken over the texts we think they reward a care­ful reading,…

Anthropophagite Manifesto

Hans Staden: Cannibali del Brasile (1557)

Only anthro­po­phagy unites us. Socially. Eco­nom­ic­ally. Philosophically. The world’s only law. The masked expres­sion of all indi­vidu­al­isms, of all col­lect­iv­isms. Of all reli­gions. Of all peace treaties. Tupy, or not tupy that is the ques­tion.1 Against all cat­ech­isms. And against the mother of the Gracchi. The only things that interest me are those that are not mine. Law…

Murderous Humanitarianism

Arshile Gorky, Agony (1947)

For cen­tur­ies the sol­diers, priests and civil agents of imper­i­al­ism, in a wel­ter of loot­ing, out­rage and whole­sale murder, have with impun­ity grown fat off the colored races. Now it is the turn of the dem­agogues, with their coun­ter­feit lib­er­al­ism. But the pro­let­ariat of today, whether met­ro­pol­itan or colo­nial, is no longer to be fooled by…

Manifesto of Surrealism

Manifeste du Surrealisme

So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fra­gile in life – real life, I mean – that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that invet­er­ate dreamer, daily more dis­con­tent with his des­tiny, has trouble assess­ing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his non­chal­ance has brought his way, or that he…