Valerie Solanas

SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell’s incisive introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas.” Here is a reconsideration of Solanas’s infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida’s “The Ends of Man” (written in the same year), Judith Butler’s Excitable Speech, Nietzsche’s Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas’s dark tract.

SCUM Manifesto

Classic 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.

Michelle Tea

Erkek Doğrama Cemiyeti manifestosu

Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime, & A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class

Society for Cutting Up Men

S.C.U.M. Manifesto

Wilda Chase

Aline d'Arbrant

The SCUM Manifesto, the most violent of the 60s and 70s' feminist texts was written in 1967. For the fiftieth anniversary of this prophetic text advocating the most radical feminism, since it purely and simply considers the suppression of the male sex, we offers this edition, with introduction and notes of Aline d'Arbrant. At the same time, Valerie Solanas was a friend of this other radical feminist, Wilda Chase, and we added to this edition the short novel that this ither gynarchist wrote the same year "The Twig Benders". The future gynarchist and cruel she described is an heterosexual response to the disappearance of males suggested the "SCUM Manifesto" and thus finds its perfect place here.

SCUM Manifesto and the Twig Benders

Valerie Solanas's legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces. Valerie Solanas's legendary play, Up Your Ass--never published during her lifetime but full of her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness, and camp--explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them. The play, the full title of which is Up Your Ass Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime, marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes: the unknowing john, the frothy career girl, the boring male narcissist, two catty drag queens, the sex-depraved housewife, and a pair of racialized pickup artists, among others. At the center is protagonist Bongi Perez--a thinly veiled Solanas--a sardonic, gender-bending hustler who escorts us through the back alleys of her street life. The fictionalized predecessor to SCUM Manifesto, the play shares the same grand, subversive, implicative language, equally spitting and winking, embracing the margins, the scum, and selling a trick along the way.

Or from the Cradle to the Boat Or the Big Suck Or Up from the Slime

Up Your Ass

This volume presents two rarities of Valerie Solanas. The legendary play "Up Your Ass" (1965/1967). And the story "A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class" (1966).

Up Your Ass; And a Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class

Scum manifesto

SCUM Manifest er en af feminismens mest berømte tekster. Valerie Solanas skrev manifestet i 1967, men det var først da hun i sommeren 1968 blev kendt som kvinden der forsøgte at myrde Andy Warhol, at skriftet fandt en forlægger.

SCUM Manifest

Bertrand Russell

Jack London

Christopher Knight

Richard Wright

Edith Wharton

Bram Stoker

Dave Hickey

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Banana Yoshimoto

Charles Baudelaire

Akiko Busch

Ruth Reichl

Jonathan Swift

Epictetus

Richard Grossman

Eddy Joe Cotton

Jeffrey Vallance

Jorgen de Mey

This box contains 24 great little books, each readable in a single sitting.

BuKapalooza

Das S.C.U.M. Manifesto gilt noch heute als eines der gewalttätigsten und streitbarsten Traktate. 1967 zum ersten Mal im Eigenverlag erschienen, machte das Werk in New York schnell die Runde. Die Olympia Press wurde darauf aufmerksam, die Übersetzung erschien kurze Zeit später schon bei MÄRZ und schlägt auch hierzulande große Wellen. Dass Valerie Solanas noch im selben Jahr Andy Warhol kennenlernt, dem sie eines ihrer Theaterstücke zu lesen gibt, bevor sie wenige Monate danach drei Schüsse auf ihn feuert, ist seither untrennbar mit der Rezeption dieses Buchs verbunden.

SCUM-Manifest

Manifest der Gesellschaft zur Vernichtung der Männer

On June 3, 1968, a young woman named Valerie Solanas shot pop artist Andy Warhol from almost point blank range at the artist's Factory studio in New York. Amazingly, two out of three shots missed, and Warhol was able to (narrowly) survive his single wound. The resulting furore of publicity ensured that Valerie Solanas, and her vitriolic anti-male tract The SCUM Manifesto, endured an everlasting notoriety thereafter. The SCUM Manifesto, written in 1967 and originally self-published in 1968, remains a powerful and sustained attack on the human male, a species which Solanas once vowed to erdicate from the face of the Earth (SCUM is sometimes said to be an acronym of Society for Cutting Up Men). As such, it stands as one of the primary documents of radical feminism; it is also an avant-garde work of alienation, and a compelling insight into the mind of an innate outsider.

The SCUM Manifesto

SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men) av Valerie Solanas från 1967 är en av de viktigaste feministiska texterna någonsin. Den orimligaste, den rimligaste. En rasande utopi för kvinnor som känner sig redo att regera universum. En vildsint och originell diagnos av patriarkatet. Mannen befinner sig i skymningslandet mellan apa och människa. Mannen är besatt av döden, av sex och av att förstöra saker. Mannen är en maskin, en vandrande dildo, en emotionell parasit, en biologisk olycka; manlighet är en bristsjukdom. För civiliserade kvinnor återstår bara att störta regeringen, eliminera det ekonomiska systemet och förstöra det manliga könet. SCUM är ett tillstånd, ett sätt att tänka, en attityd, en organisation med ett okänt antal medlemmar. Valerie Solanas manifets är en skön och våldsam vision där vänskap ersätter meningslös sex. VALERIE SOLANAS [1936-1988], författare och feministisk teoretiker, levde under stora delar av sitt liv som prostituerad. Under sextiotalet höll hon till i utkanten av New Yorks konstliv. 1968 sköt hon Andy Warhol

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