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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