Artaud Notes

CHAPTER 4 LANGUAGE OF INWARDNESS Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Marian: I’m responsible for my own motives. I keep my mouth closed and my nose open. Nurse: Can you say things a bit more clearly to let us know what’s going on? Marian: Just ask my autograph [...]

More B. quotes about synethesia… Three models of time linear (beginning-and-end theology), circular (seasonal), spiral (more eastern kind of enlightenment crap). Nietzsche: Twilight of the Idols… the indispensablility of the frenzy (above all the frenzy of sexual excitement), strong cravings (feasts), contest, all extreme movement, frenzy of cruelty, destruction, frenzy of spring, drugs, frenzy of an [...]

Restructuring the body according to desire… So much of the inner conflict of Surrealism had to do with the specifics is how the libidinal body is labels… (Artaud, Bastille, and Dali were all asked to leave)… In each of these instances, the representations of the body surpassed Breton (and other’s) what the libidinal body would [...]

Artaud was constantly trying to separate the voice from the body… finding a way for the voice to speak outside of the body… What is so radical about crooning: it’s romantic and relies upon microphone… you can here more of the breath… a microphone allows you to hear the insides of people’s mouths… a new form [...]