Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams by Ron Sakolsky


Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams
Title : Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams
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Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 630
Publication : Published June 1, 2021

The wild current of anarchy runs deeply throughout the oneiric river of surrealism. Here then is a book of dreams set in motion by the myriad historical and contemporary interactions between surrealism and one of its most marvelous accomplices: anarchism. A vast and comprehensive critical history, carefully documenting the fleeting and sometimes lengthy and troubled affiliations of scores of surrealist legends in France, Spain, North America, and elsewhere, not only with anarchism but also Trotskyism, Stalinism, council communism, anti-fascism, and indigenous cultures. Ron Sakolsky's magnum opus.

Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams Reviews

  • xDEAD ENDx

    I've said some probably unfair things about Sakolsky's other works, but I finally reached a place of understanding with this one. It really situates Surrealism within the anarchist current in a way that is deeper than DIY artistry. There's a "political" stake to Surrealism, and the theoretical underpinnings can actually be useful towards a more imaginative world. Really glad I gave this one a shot.

  • Littleblackcart

    This is a great partner to Heaven No Hell, which I read at the same time.

    (Goodreads could offer a combination function: like cheeses and olives and breads that go well together, titles that flesh each other out and provoke each other.)

    This is exactly what it purports to be, which is a record of the overlap and relationship between these two fields of ideas, and the people who visited those fields--anarchist thought and surrealism. It's historical, and anecdotal, and talks about anarchist thinking as Sakolsky understands it, which is in synch with how LBC understands it too. Anarchism is such a broad term (even more these days, but really for a long time), that one can't rely on agreeing with anything that another person says about it, but the creativity, humor, imagination, and framework shifting and questioning that Sakolsky finds crucial (cruxial? at the crux!) are important to us too.