Surrealpolitik

Surrealpolitik: Looking Back on Surrealism

Author: Theodor Adorno

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He's quite critical of the movement, and makes a few savvy observations.

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The tension in Surrealism that is discharged in shock is the tension between schizophrenia and reification...The dialectical images of Surrealism are images of a dialectic of subjective freedom in a situation of objective unfreedom. (page 230)
Tags: [Surrealism, Paranoia]