Bugs Bunny as Revolutionary: A review of F. Rosemont’s book of essays

From Charlie Allison's Blog

I expected great things when I opened Surrealism, Bugs Bunny and the Blues, PM Press’s collection of the writings of anarchist, artist and surrealist Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009). I didn’t expect to laugh half as much as I did (this is the most fun I’ve had reading a book from PM Press since the marvelous Karl Marx: Private Eye by the redoubtable Jim Feast).

‘Cause I See You

‘Cause I See You
Invecchiare Selvatico Reflects On
Invisible Generation: Rants, Polemics, and Critical Theory Against The Planetary Work Machine
by Jason Rodgers

It is rare in a world of posers, of fakes, of superficial trend surfers, of programed zombies, of reified rebels, of performative soldiers, of plastic identities, and such, to find someone who critically grapples with complexity and nuance and is not afraid to dip toes into the dangerous, a true free-spirit, an anarchist, or at least what that once meant before it all became so safe, so comfortable, so predictable, so non-anarchist. And when I am pleasantly surprised, usually by accident, that my paths come across one of these kindred spirits and their creative little explosions into the world, I am moved to respond. I begin to realize that I am not alone. There are others out there who are still alive, who have not been lobotomized and neutered by this displaced and dispirited post-modern techno-reality. I see you.

Chicago Surrealist Group on Immediatism podcast

In these four podcast episodes are read four anarcho-surrealist pieces. As Long As Tourists Replace Seers (1992, 2020) is an essay recounting and lamenting the 500 years of enslavement and oppression suffered by indigenous peoples, and is signed by over one hundred surrealists worldwide. The other three essays, pulled from 1970s magazines for the podcast, are on a variety of topics. Now's the Time is a description of the ways in which surrealism is anarchist, anti-statist; surrealists identify as "implacable enemies of things as they are, unrepentant seekers of a truly free society." Lighthouse of the Future likewise calls surrealists a "militant minority," and states that surrealist acts are "merely the first skirmishes in a protracted war." The Anteater's Umbrella critiques zoo ideology and is lightened up by an anecdote in which polar bears swim out of their enclosure during inclement weather, then find and eat thousands of marshmallows.

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