A TRIBUTE
TO THE SURREAL
In an attempt to counter the tedium of "me, myself and my
dog"-homepages that no sane being has an interest in, I promise that you
will not find material of such depressing nature here. If you really yearn to
know my personal data, feel free to mail me
and I'll happily tell you. Anyway, you will discover some stimulating links,
both homemade and otherwise.
'We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon that the machine
gun' - George Orwell
Home brew
An essay on the connection between Freud and the Surrealists.
The media and the war in the
Gulf - an essay looking at the
coverage.
A brief
dive into the murky depths of nationalism,
examining its lack of fundation.
Here it is,
the Postmodernist
Food Manifesto and the story behind it!
Some
material for the realms of imagination, role-playing.
Surfing the
retro wave with the imaginative Harry
Klein project.
Poetry -
art or pretentious nonsense? You judge, look at some poems by
my French friend Michael Baudry and me.
Links
If you think this is getting silly, take a
look at Michel Foucault
You would
be crazy to study in the news-hitting area of Northern Ireland, right?
I have seen
the future, and it is Hedonism. Read about the Hedonistic
Imperative.
Shit
happens. What's more, seriously weird shit happens: Wall
O'Shame
For
something radically off-piste, those polyester-loving funky freaks Afrosquad
Anarchism -
an anachronism today? The media critic Noam Chomsky
speaks
The Holy
Bible. Not the book, but an album from the Welsh band Manic Street
Preachers
An
excellent resource for philosophy, critical theory and postmodernism, just one click away
Want
well-written observations on contemporary culture and politics? Salon
Magazine is the place to go
Legislated
pseudoscience today? Yep, look at Creationism
Lots of
very interesting counterculture information can be found at the must-see Disinfo site
I know the
Bergen-based band Ai Phoenix.
Check out their lo-fi music.
People
sometimes die in the most morbidly amusing ways, check out the Darwin Awards
And now for something completely different:
"You're obliged to pretend respect for
people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly
fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all
foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and all the
dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad,
troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life
and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and
restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal
wound of the civilized world"
"The Torture Garden" - Octave
Mirbeau
If you wish to contact the person behind
this stuff, send mail to Truls Rostrup
Last update: The 2nd of July, 2002
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