Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work

Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work

Susik, Abigail

Manchester University Press

10/2021

296

Dura

Inglês

9781526155016

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction
1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal
2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotage
Simone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatist
Tracing stenographic surrealism and the dame dactylographe
Psychic automatism and feminisation
3 Oscar Dominguez: autonomy and autoeroticism
'These phosphorescent youths': Dominguez and surrealism, 1934-35
Dominguez's Machine a coudre electro-sexuelle (1934-35)
Operating Maldoror's vamp machine
Dysfunctional tools in Dominguez's anti-work oeuvre
4 Direct action surrealism in Chicago
Prologue: activist avant-garde
'Incendiary time bomb': The Rebel Worker (1964-66)
Robert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatism
Chicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principle
Epilogue: override dysfunctions and the 'Klapheck computer'
Index -- .
Andre Breton; automatism; Chicago surrealism; Herbert Marcuse; Konrad Klapheck; Man Ray; Oscar Dominguez; Salvador Dali; Simone Breton; Work refusal