Table of Contents

Part 1 The surrealist adventure - total nonconformism, insubordination and revolution as the way to a non-repressive civilization: what is surrealism?; first steps - surrealism in the US in the 1960s; poetry, freedom and love;surrealist games - play as the collective shaping reality; dreaming revolution - surrealism yesterday, today and tomorrow. Part II The surrealist critique: capitalist civilization - the global prison; against the degredation of langiuage - exposing the false poets and the miserabilist media; patriarchy and sexual oppression; work - terror and boredom at the point of production; the lie of whiteness; religion as repression; the desruction of wilderness; official art - the aesthetics of repressive desublimination; critique of the traditional left. Part III Surrealist action - social transformation as festival: realization of poetry in everyday life; defending the marvellous; subverting the institutions of unfreedom; the savage eye - liberating the visual imagination; outsiders; images of desire in motion; from horror to humour - surrealism's popular accomplices; black music - sounds of the history of freedom; other musics - disturbing the "Peace"; taking chances and raising the stakes; rebel workers and utopian dreamers - reclaiming the past; surrealist inquiries - questioning everything.

About the Author

Ron Sakolsky is also the co-editor of two other Autonomedia anthologies: Gone To Croatan: The Origins of North American Drop-Out Culture (with James Koehnline) and Sounding Off!: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution (with Fred Ho).