File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-08-21.184, message 134


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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