After Salvador Dali receives a well-deserved beat-down, Tish, Adam and Alex talk surrealism! Widely known, but frequently depoliticized in our current day, surrealism is a cornerstone of the critical irrealist project for us at Locust Review. We discuss its origins, missions and goals in liberating the mind from the fetters of capitalism and empire, and its communist activism.
Morning Star, by Michael Lowy
Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora, edited by Franklin Rosemon the Robin DG Kelley
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin DG Kelley
“Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art,” by Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky, signed by Breton and Diego Rivera: https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/rivera/manifesto.htm
Afrosurrealism, edited by Rochelle Spencer
“Claude Cahun: The Androgynous Surrealist,” by Jacqueline Martinez, The Collector: https://www.thecollector.com/claude-cahun/
“When the Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dali for ‘the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism,’” by Josh Jones, Open Culture: https://www.openculture.com/2018/03/when-the-surrealists-expelled-salvador-dali-for-the-glorification-of-hitlerian-fascism-1934.html
Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. It is hosted by Tish Turl, Adam Turl, and Alexander Billet. Music is by Omnia Sol: https://omniasolart.bandcamp.com/