Manifestoes (Volume F)

Manifesto

F. T. Marinetti• futurism• Fascism• “We wish to glorify

war—the sole cleanser of the world—militarism, patriotism, the destructive act of the libertarian, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for women” (p. 644).

Chen Duxiu

• Communism• Jeunesse (New

Youth)• “Down with obscure,

abstruse eremitic literature; up with comprehensible popularized social literature!” (p. 648).

Tristan Tzara

• Cabaret Voltaire• “Freedom: DADA

DADA DADA, shrieking of contracted pains, intertwining of contraries and of all contradictions, grotesqueries, nonsequiturs: LIFE” (p. 652).

André Breton• surrealism• incongruity• Freud’s theory of the

unconscious• automatic writing• “Psychic automatism in

its pure state, by which one proposes to express…the actual functioning of thought…exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern” (p. 658).

Vicente Huidobro• creationism• “If you accept the

representations that a man makes of Nature, that proves that you love neither Nature nor Art” (p. 664).

• “Humanize things” (p. 663).• “The vague should become

precise” (p. 663).• “The abstract should

become concrete and the concrete abstract” (p. 663).

• “That which is too poetic to be created, becomes creation when its customary meaning is changed” (p. 663).

Black Panther Party

• radicals• civil rights movement• Socialism • Declaration of

Independence • “We believe that black

people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny” (p. 665).

Valerie Solanas• Andy Warhol• SCUM• female-only society• “Eventually the natural

course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females” (p. 668).

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