A Reading of Antonin Artaud's "New Revelations of Being"

From ' Artaud 1937 Apocalypse':
"Antonin Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the “catastrophic immediate-future,” Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Traveling first to the isolated island of Inishmore off Ireland’s western coast, then to Galway, and finally to Dublin, Artaud was eventually arrested as an undesirable alien, beaten by the police, and summarily deported back to France. On his return, he spent nine years in asylums, remaining there through the entire span of World War II.
During his fateful journey, Artaud wrote letters to friends in Paris which included several “magic spells,” intended to curse his enemies and protect his friends from the city’s forthcoming incineration and the Antichrist’s appearance. (To André Breton, he wrote: “It’s the Unbelievable-yes, the Unbelievable-it’s the Unbelievable which is the truth.”) This book collects all of Artaud’s surviving correspondence from his time in Ireland, as well as photographs of the locations he traveled through. Featuring an afterword and notes by the book’s translator, Stephen Barber, this edition marks the seventieth anniversary of Artaud’s death."
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[@96thamu23]

nightmare smoke sesh with antonin artaud

[@clumsydad7158]

interesting, thanks for the edu

[@littleantukins4415]

When the reality is not real

[@avikchatterjee1945]

I am revolving around this desperate dynamo. Mark Fisher is on my mind while listening the real voice of the mad moon Artaud. Really damn good post. Want to watch the world burn - as the latest FALLING IN REVERSE SONG SAYS. END THIS CATASTROPHIC SEGREGATION OR DIE AT YOUR OWN WILL.

[@zachbartell843]

It's cybernetic contagion as a poem, its script mutates on relistenings: the last line, read as a promise the first time, "I will therefore say what I have seen, and what is," reads on subsequent viewings as a receipt: yes, you will have, and did, and thus will have always had. Artaud, moderner with Nietzsche, at home & in sanity, in spirals & spores, Antonin a little more vocal on the other side than his rival, the Aristocrat Nietzsche, who's mostly silent past a certain point. But yes, also to Antonin we'd add the gluon sequences and UFO acid-lunches of today and tomorrow.

[@dethkon]

The description is absolutely mad. What other works has our hero written or created??

[@romanticplacebo3693]

His letters on surrealism are pretty astonishing, unfortunately the plays he produced (The Cenci) can't rival the catatonic delirium he captured on pages.