SCUM ManifestoClassic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.” Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. But for all its vitriol, it is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time—predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts—but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. In this edition, philosopher Avital Ronell’s introduction reconsiders the evocative exuberance of this infamous text. |
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... fact that male lacks exist in men, but still can't face the fact that they exist in men only. So they label the male condition the Human Condition; pose their nothingness problem, which horrifies them, as a philosophical dilemma” (53) ...
... fact that male lacks exist in men, but still can't face the fact that they exist in men only. So they label the male condition the Human Condition; pose their nothingness problem, which horrifies them, as a philosophical dilemma” (53) ...
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... fact of language, by its phallic lures and political usages, by its disturbing record in the human sciences and liberal arts – by the mere fact of its incessant institutional collaborations. Maybe she exploited the failed performative ...
... fact of language, by its phallic lures and political usages, by its disturbing record in the human sciences and liberal arts – by the mere fact of its incessant institutional collaborations. Maybe she exploited the failed performative ...
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... to the acronymic status of the title – despite the fact that marks of abbreviation, periods, are missing after each letter – “cutting up,” though linking Solanas to Lorena Bobbitt,11 flourishes polysemically and cannot.
... to the acronymic status of the title – despite the fact that marks of abbreviation, periods, are missing after each letter – “cutting up,” though linking Solanas to Lorena Bobbitt,11 flourishes polysemically and cannot.
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... fact, Solanas states that the principal mood or defining characteristic of SCUM is impatience. What she means by this declaration is that the mutation for which she agitates is already taking place: the collaboration of a biological ...
... fact, Solanas states that the principal mood or defining characteristic of SCUM is impatience. What she means by this declaration is that the mutation for which she agitates is already taking place: the collaboration of a biological ...
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... fact that the male is gradually eliminating himself. In addition to engaging the timehonored and classical wars and raceriots, men are more and more either becoming fags or are obliterating themselves through drugs. The female, whether ...
... fact that the male is gradually eliminating himself. In addition to engaging the timehonored and classical wars and raceriots, men are more and more either becoming fags or are obliterating themselves through drugs. The female, whether ...
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Andy Warhol animalism attempting to prove automated society automation AVITAL Avital Ronell biological calls capable classical unity completely contempt conversation cowardly Culture Daddy Daddy’s Girl death Derrida destroy dominant drag queen educated emotional emotionally enemy eventually everything exist fact Factory father fatherhood fear feel feminine feminist fucking function garbage goal groove Harron hate he’s highly hippy incapable incomplete female individuality insecure Jacques Derrida kids kill lack of selfconfidence language lesbian Lesbian Avengers live machine male artist male needs male’s malefemales Mama man’s Mary Harron means Men’s Auxiliary mindless momentarily money system mother nice Nietzsche Nietzschean one’s pandering phallogocentric philosophical physical politeness problem psychoticization pussy respect Ruby Rich scientists screwing SCUM MANIFESTO SCUM’s shit shooting social society Solanas’s target technologies thrillseeking totally sexual turd typewriter Übermensch unable to relate unwork utter bore Valerie Solanas Valerie’s Verso wants what’s woman women