Subject: Re: Surrealism: "Creativity and Morality" Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 11:27:00 +0100 From: "Theoretical Phys. MSc accnt. 13" <tpmsc13-AT-ic.ac.uk> Hi all, This is an interesting discussion! It seems to me that both of the two words, "morality" and "ethics", have negative associations, but I would argue that that is because they have become perverted by capitalist/bourgeois society. A Danish surrealist text from the 30'es ended with a call for a "society in an agreement with human nature, and a morality compatible with our desires". I would still subscripe to this view, and for me, when Breton et al talk about morality, it is such a morality they mean. To me this fits in perfectly with Artaud, Sade, Bataille, Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Lautreamont and others. To which list I would also add Herbert Marcuse and to some extent Norman O Brown, Huizinga, Wilhelm Reich, Vaneigem... Let us liberate these words from their bourgeois prisons. Capital has put the world upside-down, fashioning all ideas in its image. The psychological reasons for this are obvious! But let us fight back. Sorry for the too brief nature of this reply, but I simply haven't got the time for a fuller answer yet..... soon..... Frank
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