Abigail Susik
@AbigailSusik
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'24 Fellow @NatlHumanities ; #Surrealism Series Editor @BloomsburyBooks ; author @LAReviewofBooks & 4 books: 'Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work' + 3 volumes
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Check out my op-ed on the American labor shortage in "The New York Times" today!
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I was one of the few art historians signed on to this plea to spare two young people from prison for throwing soup on the glass of a Van Gogh painting. This was a non-violent form of symbolic protest that should not be prosecuted so severely.
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When Walter Benjamin had a son in 1918 he fell in love with old fashioned children's books. This is one of his favorites from his collection. It's a late 19th century German book called "The Magical
Red Umbrella," with psychedelic illustrations worthy of Henry Darger.
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Here's a preliminary cover design for my new book! What do you think of it? Coming out in June 2025 with
@BloomsburyBooks
in our Transnational Surrealism series. It covers subjects related to surrealism and animation from the early 20th century to the present day.
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Since it doesn't look like it will be published, colleagues in the surrealism studies community have asked me to share their letter to
@lrb
in response to Hal Foster's recent essay on surrealism.
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Full house for my lecture on Leonora Carrington last night! We focused on her theme of the cosmic egg, the last egg, the world egg. Great crowd and good questions.
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Personally I would not use the word iconoclasm for this action of throwing soup at Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", because iconoclasm means the destruction of images. The Van Gogh was not destroyed, but rather embellished by the energy of their protest.
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Arrived today! My essay is called "Wage Labour as Contagion". I write about Man Ray's early ready-mades, the 1918 pandemic, Lautréamont, Oscar Dominguez, André Thirion, erotic literature, and sexy sewing machines...
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I've just been named Joint Series Editor of the Transnational Surrealism series at Bloomsbury! I'm honored AND eager to see your surrealism manuscripts. Please spread the word about this excellent publishing opportunity in the field of Surrealism Studies.
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"Criminal Damage" is not an accurate word for the protest action, which was in reality closer to a form of occupation or sit-in or blockage. There was no actual property damage beyond cleaning up a mess of soup.
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Here's the cover of my forthcoming solo guest edited special double issue of "Journal of Avant-garde Studies" devoted to the subject of surrealism and anti-authoritarianism.
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Letter by Dawn Ades, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Steven Harris, Georges Sebbag and Michael Richadson, Editors of the 'International Encylopedia of Surrealism' in response to Foster's claim that "Surrealism has been passed on the right" and other statements.
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Leonora Carrington’s play "Opus Siniestrus" was written in the late 60s and tells the story of a virus that kills all of the female creatures on the planet. The last living woman, Mina Mina, fights to save the Last Egg, laid by a goddess ostrich. Mask designed by Leonora.
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Just reading this essay on the anti-work discourse now but it's great so check it out...
@readinhabit
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Just found my translation with a crazy 1967 cover from
@CityLightsBooks
of the beautiful novel by number of the surrealism adjacent group, Le Grand Jeu, by René Daumal... As per our recent conversation about your new novel
@IneluctableQuak
@Powells
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Great news! I'm going to be speaking with Silvia Federici for a piece in the 'Los Angeles Review of Books.' I'll be focusing on this book but hope to take everything she's done into consideration.
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Today I'm working on final edits for the 8 essays in my forthcoming guest edited special issue of "Journal of Avant-garde Studies": "Surrealism and Antiauthoritarianism", such as senior scholar Michael Richardson’s analysis of anti-fascist structures of surrealist collectivity.
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BOOK CONTRACT SIGNED TODAY! "Surrealism and Animation: Transnational Connections, 1920-Present" will be published by
@BloomsburyBooks
in 2025.
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I'm giving the concluding Frank Davis Memorial Lecture at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London this Dec. 10th; series organized by Gavin Parkinson; five lectures: Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Alyce Mahon, Fabrice Flahutez, Patricia Allmer, and myself.
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New book on Surrealism and anarchism by my friend Ron Sakolsky, courtesy of our own radical independent publisher here in Portland, OR, Eberhardt Press.
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Our letter was also covered by the "Telegraph" in this article. Last week, one of the two protesters was sentenced with 20 months in prison, and the other received 2 years.
@GreenpeaceUK
@Telegraph
@guardian
@JustStop_Oil
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As students return to campus around the United States, it has been immensely satisfying and hopeful to speak with radical activist Ben Morea about his group's important role in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University. You can read our just-released interview
@illwilleditions
Ben Morea on the university as a site of revolutionary struggle, then and now.
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Surrealist work refusal, an extreme position of permanent strike, is a fascinating model of oppositional resistance and non-compromising protest demand.
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Thanks to New York Archives of Autonomist Marxism for this great commentary about my new book, Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement 1964-1967 (ed. Abigail Susik, Eberhardt Press, 2023)
@NY_AOAM
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This week there were two special arrivals. My son Vaughn came into this world, and Kirsten Strom's Routledge volume on surrealism was delivered. My chapter analyzes the surrealist androgyne in a mid60s performance by Giovanna and Goutier. Baby Vaughn is his own marvelous mystery!
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Coming your way in March...
'Radical Dreams: Surrealism,Counterculture, Resistance'
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Join me for a lecture on Leonora Carrington at the Oregon Jewish Museum, 6 pm today!
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Test cover for my next book just in from PM Press. This project is a friendship collab with American radical Paul Buhle, whose vision was to reveal Chicago surrealist Franklin Rosemont as a brilliant popular culture theorist. Forthcoming in '24, surrealism's 100th.
@PMPressOrg
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The new catalog of the current surrealism exhibition in Paris at the Centre Pompidou just arrived in the mail, and I'm having fun exploring its two-sided format. My essay about the revolutionary politics of surrealism and painting is part of the section organized by Katia Sowels.
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Hooray! As of today, my book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" is now available in paperback for 37 bucks from Manchester University Press.
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My book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" has been reviewed by renowned surrealism scholar Michael Löwy in a beautiful essay for the journal 'Modernism/modernity' 29, no. 4 (November 2022): 889–891.
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Huge love to my friend Paul Garon, Chicago surrealist, leading Blues expert, consummate bibliophile, sweetest and gentlest man. Paul died yesterday.
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Coming soon from
@PMPressOrg
, my new book with legendary Paul Buhle, and antho of Franklin Rosemont's writings on popular culture with an introduction by me and an afterword by Paul. Early 2025...
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“Artforum” has dedicated a careful and detailed response to my book “Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work” in this significant review.
@Artforum
@ManchesterUP
Let the debate begin…
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My book will be available in paperback from Manchester University Press in January 2023. $35.
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It has been wonderful to collaborate on this project with the
@minorcomps
group: an excellent volume edited by the prolific Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and also including an essay by the late, great Marina Vishmidt. The book is dedicated to her.
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I have been named a 2023 Senior Fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, Austria as part of their "Different Work" research stream!
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Love to my friend, the incredible surrealist artist Alan Glass, who died yesterday.
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My long-form essay about Silvia Federici and what she calls the "War on Reproduction" will appear in
@LAReviewofBooks
this Friday. Talking with Silvia about these issues has revolutionized my perspective on movement-building and the need for solidarity across activist commitments
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Michael Löwy's surrealist Marxism is on my mind, as usual.
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The cover of my next book! "Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-1967." Out in April courtesy of the amazing
#Eberhardtpress
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Coming soon: my guest edited special issue, "Post-war Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism," "Journal of Avant-Garde Studies", Spring 2024 surrealism Centenary issue
Edited by Abigail Susik, with nine excellent essays by international scholars
ISSN: 2589-6377
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My book was just published! "Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-1967", Edited by Abigail Susik (Eberhardt Press).
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The new volume that I edited on surrealism and "left of the left" radicals in 1960s USA is hitting the press this week!
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Professor Gavin Parkinson at The Courtauld Institute of Art has also sent in a letter which we are hoping
@LRB
will publish.
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My book is now out in paperback!
Now in paperback
#Surrealism
and
#film
after 1945, Absolutely modern mysteries, edited by Kristoffer Noheden and
@AbigailSusik
Features eleven original contributions by prominent scholars such as Tom Gunning, Michael Löwy and Gavin Parkinson
More here
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I had a wonderful afternoon touring the
@FreudMuseum
in Vienna with the directors and learning about their excellent current exhibition, 'SURREAL! Imagining New Realities: 100 works from the Klewan Collection'. Freud pictured here with his two chowchows, Jofi and Lün.
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Check out my interview with Rosalind Krauss, published today in
@LAReviewofBooks
. We discuss her current project devoted to Roland Barthes, her memories of Clement Greenberg, and the ever present demons of analogy.
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I am thrilled to announce that the book I co-edited with Elliott King, "Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance," has been named a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection Prize Shortlist
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My co-editor Elliott King with a copy of our new book "Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance" at the Venice Biennale bookstore!
@PSUPress
@la_Biennale
#SURREALISM
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I so enjoyed reading and endorsing this important new book on the SI by
@docteur_en_rien
just out on Verso
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My long-awaited, nearly-ill-fated, endlessly dreamed of, co-curated retrospective of the works of queer surrealist Alan Glass opens at the Museo del Palacio des Bellas Artes in Mexico City on October 29th!!
"Alan Glass: Sorprendente hallazgo"
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Our volume "Surrealism and Film after 1945" has just been published in paperback by
@ManchesterUP
!
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If you or your loved one need an abortion, my household in Portland,OREGON will house you for free as you seek care. Please don't hesitate to contact me here if you or anyone you know needs help. Solidarity, love, support.
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Very pleased to say that you can now preorder my book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" in paperback-- for $37 bucks or 25 British pounds.
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Manuscript just submitted to
@BloomsburyBooks
! 417 pages, 99 images, 19 chapters and a 4-part introduction. "Surrealism and animation: transnational connections, 1920-present"
Edited by Abigail Susik
Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Transnational Surrealism series
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I'm incredibly grateful to announce that I've been named one of 35 international scholars awarded a National Humanities Fellowship next year!
We are heading to Chapel Hill, NC, where I will be working on my next book full-time.
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With
@IneluctableQuak
Mauro Javier Cárdenas and our books before our discussion of his fine novel "American Abductions", surrealism, AI, and deportation last night
@Powells
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The surrealist war on work covered here for professional idlers!
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100th anniversary of surrealism publication is out:
The Forecast Is Hot!, with new essays "Forecasting Permanent Insurrection: Chicago Surrealism’s Blazing Anti-Racism, 1966 to Now" by Abigail Susik and "In the Heat of the Marvelous" by Ron Sakolsky
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We lost poet David Shapiro this May. He was my professor at Columbia. Hilarious man. Here he is during the 68 Columbia occupations sitting in the president's chair and smoking his cigars.
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Sharing photographs and descriptions of the five essays featured in the first volume of the special centenary double issue of "Journal of Avant-Garde Studies" that I edited: "Post-war Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism".
Volume one was just published
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"It is organized violence at the top which creates individual violence at the bottom." --Emma Goldman
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@MamanUbu
I was just looking into this. His son was able to free to England, escaping the Nazis. He married a German woman there and died of natural causes fairly young. However Benjamin's younger brother became a resistance fighter and was murdered at a concentration camp.
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Senior surrealism studies scholar David Hopkins weighs in on my book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" in a wonderful review appearing in last month's issue of
@BurlingtonMag
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Very happy to have provided a review quote for Wil Atkin's excellent new book "Surrealist Sorcery", just out from Bloomsbury Press...
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I'll be giving a talk at the Spencer Museum of Art/ the University of Kansas a week from today, on Monday March 27th at 515 pm. Pleae join us if you can!
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Excited about this new translation of Lafargue's 'Right to Be Lazy' from NYRB, with an introduction by Lucy Sante.
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Our book was published today!
Welcome to the world, dear book!
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Looking for scholars interested in contributing to a forthcoming co-edited special issue journal issue, "The Ultraleft and International Postwar Art (1945-1980)."
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Getting ready to talk about some really sexy stuff in my lecture today,: surrealism's anti-fascism and anti-Stalinism c. 1935, French garment workers, 19th century gynecology, and sewing machines. Great combo.
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The audience gathering for my recent lecture on surrealist wage labor abolitionism at the IFK Vienna, where I am currently in residence as a City of Vienna Senior Fellow. We had a great turnout, with about 60 or so people in person and virtual.
#ifk_Vienna
#surrealism
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I'm giving a keynote address at this conference on global surrealism in Iceland in June of 2025. Here is the call for papers! Please consider joining us and spread the word.
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I'm pleased to announce my upcoming lecture on surrealist automatism at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, on Wednesday, January 25th! It will be very, very cool to talk with analysis students about surrealism.
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I deeply grateful to Sasha Frere-Jones
@zombiesfj
for his work on this important essay in
@NewLeftReview
, which includes the first discussion in print of my book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work." His review of"Surrealism Beyond Borders" is absolutely brilliant.
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Excellent symposium coming up in two week
@HarnMuseumofArt
@UniversityOfFL
...I'll be talking about surrealism and the Abolition of whiteness
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Just published: my interview with anarchist philosopher John Clark aka Max Cafard, pictured here if you are able to enlarge and read. We discuss Heraclitus, the Mississippi River delta, anarchography, Murray Bookchin, libertarianism, domination, the SI....and more.
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This Monday Aug. 8th at 3 pm EST, Elliott King and I will talk with Chicago Surrealist Penelope Rosemont about surrealism in the 1960s and 70s, and about our new book "Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance." Join us!
@TheLastTuesdayS
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Thanks to
@illwilleditions
for sharing a selection from the lost anarchist surrealist materials from the 1960s Resurgence Youth Movement that we uncovered and are now sharing in our forthcoming book from
@PressEberhardt
The Resurgence Youth Movement injected an insurrectional élan into New York’s calcified anarchist and far-left scene of the 1960s. After being lost for over half a century, their writings are finally being republished.
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My upcoming residence as a City of Vienna/International Research Center for Cultural Studies fellow: project title, You Sleep for the Boss’ -Radical Work Critiques in Belgian Surrealism and early Situationism, 1950–1970. What things do you love in Vienna?
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Today
@Freedom_Paper
, the world's oldest anarchist publication, founded
by Kropotkin in 1886, headlined my story on surrealism and anarchism then and now. This story highlights tomorrow's "Resurgence" book launch at 3 pm EST for
@ISSS_Surrealism
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We are very happy to see Ela Bittencourt's insightful discussion of our new book "Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance" in the current issue of "Frieze" magazine.
@friezeofficial
@wwJJDdo
@JonathanEburne
@ElliottHKing
@PSUPress
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For
#ModWrite
today, I'm working on an essay for the volume "Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde,” ed. by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen with
@minorcomps
. I write on the concept of the art strike in a 1925 essay by Andrè Breton and essays from the 60s/70s by Alain Jouffroy.
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HUGE NEWS TODAY:
I've been awarded a Senior Core Fellowship for Spring 2025 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest. Project: anti-authoritarian commitments in Postwar Surrealist and Situationist art in Belgium.
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Very excited about this event we are hosting with
@amyhale93
on Sunday. Join us for another great discussion about surrealism.
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@DoItDewey
It's such a complicated action and question that a very nuanced answer is required. I think the bottom line is that the work actually wasn't destroyed or even hurt at all. The soup just hit the glass and the protesters knew that that would be the case.
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Announcing my new book project with Eberhardt Press in Portland, OR. Spread the word. We need support for independent publishing: first book about the extremely rare surrealist, anarchist, IWW, and anti-racist underground zine, "Resurgence" (1964–1967).
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Just published! Volume one of our centenary surrealism issue of "Journal of Avant-garde Studies" : "Post-war Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism".
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My copies of our book "Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance" arrived yesterday.
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In one sentence Jaleh Mansoor has understood more about my 2021 book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" than all the reviewers put together.
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