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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... machine.7 It would be unwarranted to turn Valerie Solanas into a blindingly lucid catalogue of contemporary theoretical thought; at the same time, however, it would be ignorant to disavow what made her language, her appeal, her ...
... machine.7 It would be unwarranted to turn Valerie Solanas into a blindingly lucid catalogue of contemporary theoretical thought; at the same time, however, it would be ignorant to disavow what made her language, her appeal, her ...
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... machines, pumping iron and bumping off the helpless, impoverished – as well as the strong and capable. Man has strapped himself into an autoimmune laboratory wherein everything constructed turns against him. He is the author of his own ...
... machines, pumping iron and bumping off the helpless, impoverished – as well as the strong and capable. Man has strapped himself into an autoimmune laboratory wherein everything constructed turns against him. He is the author of his own ...
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... machine that defines him as an opposable entity? Polemics, which comes from polemos is itself part of the war cry and always involves an attack. There has to be a way to situate the diatribe without falling into the trap of polemics ...
... machine that defines him as an opposable entity? Polemics, which comes from polemos is itself part of the war cry and always involves an attack. There has to be a way to situate the diatribe without falling into the trap of polemics ...
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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