Sorealist Manifesto
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Here is the home of the ongoing project to create a sorealist manifesto. Most manifestos in the past, whether written by arts movements, individuals (or political parties) are closed controlling events. But Sorealism is in the eyes of its beholders. It doesn't exist until created in the minds of its adherents. So this page is free for open editing, and subsequent correction, by anyone who has an interest.
Make this Manifesto Your Own
[edit] NOW IS THE TIME; HERE IS THE PLACE
A manifesto of the Soreal
Too many manifestos have been written ABOUT the people, but not FOR them. Here's a chance to rectify that. Submit your tenets, beliefs and comments to create the first ever WIKI INSPIRED MANIFESTO.
1. Sorealism is.... add as appropriate
2. We the people hold these truths to be self evident: everywhere men and women are created free/breathe regularly/don't know what they want/can i go home now please?
3. Deny the children of today access to the immaterial world, and they will soon demand the material world with force.
3. "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope has been given to us." Walter Benjamin.
4. "Beauty is unbearable, driving us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time" Albert Camus
5. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future) Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a
6. "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism)
7. Or any of the above. Please delete. Please add. Please say something
GETTING BACK TO WHERE YOU WERE
If you're lost, confused or bemused, just head on right back to SOREALISM.COM [1] and count yourself lucky to have survived.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorealism is a new wikimovement, founded by the composer Marcos D'Cruze and the writer Peter Jukes, in London in 2006. Like its 20th Century precursor - Surrealism [http//en.wikipedia.org/surrealism] - Sorealism claims not just be an art movement or literary school, but more "a way of life". Sorealism.com [2] is also the first known instance of such a movement starting online, using groupware and social networking to affiliate its members to a general ideology
Soreal Philosophies
Though sorealism claims to be less interested in ideas than 'reality', this is clearly an intellectual stance derived from English empiricist thought, and going back to the atomism of Lucretius [3] and Epicurus [4]. Suspicious of any a priori forms of thought, Sorealism is heavily influenced by the deductive methods of scientific analysis. On the sorrealism website [5] Richard Feymann [6] is in prominent position, along with Albert Camus [7] and Isiah Berlin [8]. Naturally, given the empiricist slant, sorealism feels most at home in the realm of history rather than ideology, and it claims kinship both to realist historiansand the more idealist claims of liberal historiography.
Sorealism in the Arts
Though it seems to have a lot in common with naturalism [9] or realism [10] in the arts, the main focus of Soreal visual aesthetics is photography. The web manifesto claims that this because 'reality is better than anything we can make up'. But given the backgrounds of the founders of sorealism, the visual arts - though heavily referenced - are not the main focus here. Both D'Cruze and Jukes have collaborated on several theatrical and musical projects, so there main area of interest is drama, film, music and literature. In a recent blog discussion, D'Cruze claimed that sorealism was invented to "reclaim all the plus points of magical realism [11], just minus the bad bits, the magic". A common thread between both founders, which links them back to the founders of surrealism, is a mutual admiration for flamenco, the concept of duende [12] and the work of Federico Garcia Lorca [13]. Lorca was close to the supreme surrealist avatar, Salvador Dali [14], for several years, before eschewing the increasingly shrill and controlling concepts of surrealism for something much more accessible and superficially realist in his later works. He is in many ways the main precursor of sorealism.
Sorealism and Science
Science is the sorealist method par excellence in that it uses doubt, hypothesis and proof: it is an open ended system in the classic topology of Popper [15] , and therefore open to revision and improvement in the light of experience. One of the major claims of Sorealism is that it can, in the words of Jukes "unite both the arts and the sciences". They argue that belief, doubt and reinvention is the mental equivalent of natural selection in the evolutionary sphere, and their image of cultural propagation is not that dissimiliar to the memes [16] concept of Richard Dawkins. However, it must be pointed out that both founders are practitioning entertainers or artists, and therefore their ideas of evolution are probably more 'creative' than exact.
Sorealism and Politics
Though there are some references to sorealist history and sorealist politicians in the website manifesto, there is no clear political line in sorealism as yet. This may not be a coincidence. The unfortunate alignment of surrealism with communism, thanks to the pressure of Andre Breton provokes some of the more intense debate among sorealists: are they just creating an in-group which will exclude others, much like Breton [17] excluded Bataille [18], or Freud [19] excluded Jung [20]. The Sorealist Movement claims to be the first ever wiki movement, and has an open manifesto than can be edited and revised much like wikipedia. But is this kind of openness really self defeating? Can you have a definable movement that doesn't define itself more concretely?
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