The Transcendental Surrealist Manifesto

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Antid is back in da house..

Na Balkenende's oproep tot positivisme en in navolging van
het liberaal manifest en de onafhankelijkheidsverklaring van
Wilders volgt hier Antid's eigen antithese: een aan de tijd
aangepaste positivistische versie van het surrealistisch
manifest.


THE TRANSCENDENTAL SURREALIST MANIFESTO

The original Surrealist Manifesto was written in 1924 by
Andre Breton and then signed by such artists as Louis
Aragon, Antonin Artaud, Jacques Baron, Joe Bousquet, J.-A.
Boiffard, Jean Carrive, Rene Crevel, Robert Desnos, Paul
Elaurd, Max Ernst, and Breton himself. Released to the
public on January 27th 1925.

Due the desperate situation of present day reality the
revolutionary avant-garde has reformulated its original
manifest.

With regard to a false interpretation of our enterprise,
stupidly circulated among the public, we declare as follows
to the entire braying literary, dramatic, philosophical,
exegetical and even theological body of contemporary criticism:

(1). We have nothing to do with literature, philosophy or
politics; but we are quite capable, when necessary, of
making use of it like anyone else.

(2). Transcendental Surrealism is not a new means of
expression, but it can shape reality through the Antitheses.
It is a means of total liberation of the mind by adopting
Russel's paradox into our consciousness and of all that
resembles it.

(3). We are determined to make a Revolution.

(4). We have joined the concept Transcendental Surrealism to
the word revolution to ban the disinterested, detached,
desperate character of reality and to propagate history by
means of transcendental dialectics.

(5). We make no claim to change the mores of mankind, but we
intend to make use of the fragility of thought, its shifting
foundations, to rebuild our trembled houses.

(6). We greet Society, but beware of your deviations and
faux-pas, we shall not miss a single one.

(7). At each turn of its thought, Society will find us waiting.

(8). We are specialists in Revolt. There is no means of
thought which we are not capable, when necessary, of employing.

(9). We say in particular to Society: Transcendental
Surrealism exists. And what is this new ism that is fastened
to us? Transcendental Surrealism is not a poetic form. It is
a celibration of the mind turning back on itself, and it is
determined to break apart its fetters, even if it must be by
imaginary hammers!

Bureaus de Recherches Surrealistes,
1111 Berlin, Coyoacán
Mexico D.F.

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