Knights of Hermopolis

                                                                             Emblem of the feminine & masculine and Ouroboros, from Atalanta Fugiens Surrealism: The memory of the future - Social and exploratory possibilities in the 21st century ENRIQUE DE SANTIAGO If someone goes down to the well and breaks the images of his memory, throws down the voice,  breaking the echo in every stone that speaks, the polished surface moves and the prodigious body rises free of scales. -Ludwig Zeller Surrealism today, faces new challenges in this century, on the one hand there is the state of always remaining insubordinate and alert to the changes or social transformations that come with the new crisis of world capitalism, which in its most advanced ...

  The Surrealist Civilization Project Burns our Hands Thomas Mordant “Make the activities of play prevail over the superstitions of utility” Vratislav Effenberger  -  La Civilization Surréaliste. Payot,  1976 “The idea of surrealist civilization is an unfinished project whose present data calls for immediate d evelopments” Vincent Bounoure  -    La Civilization Surréaliste.  last sentence Because the dream is untimely and dialectical For more than a decade covering the seventies of the twentieth century, surrealism has been passionately concerned with collective automatism and the project of surrealist civilization that emanates from it. It was a time when capitalist civilization was severely challenged by vast movements, even in its most powerful and wealthy centres. All capitalist values (from utilitarianism to religion, from prose to calculation), all the institutions (from the army to the family, from business to school, from sedentary life to...