Anonymous Surrealist writes:

"An Incomplete List of Points of Surrealist Struggle Against Boredom, Absurdism and Crippling Backwardness In Its Own Ranks"
Battaglia Surrealista, 1st of May 2004

This article sets out a preliminary theoretical and antipolitical position of a fighting surrealism; it argues for a surrealism that opens a battle against absurdism, to prevent the further consolidation of boredom and to disrupt its social power. Please translate into incomprehensible tongues.1.
Boredom is not a thing but a social relation, embodied by the relations within the class of the bored and its organisation of social doing, the market of different types of boredom and all forms of boring discipline, the division of life into boring social roles. It has divided time into two parts, both of which are boring, but one officially more so. The history of boredom has not yet been written, but it is not any different from that of the struggle against it; boredom and surrealism are two sides of the same reality, or pre-history, in which we live. Surrealism as such does not exist today except as a fight against the root of boredom.

2.
The fight for a total social transformation that liberates the living from what limits them, is the substance of the surrealist programme; it includes language and grammar. It implies a fight against both boredom and its defenders, the present organized lack of material and immaterial things, its rigid division of things to do, its totally useless bureaucratisation of all activity and the imposed lack of control over what one does with ones time. All of these are moments of a fight against absurdist boredom, for a surreal and material community of desiring activity; this is the same as a fight against the “development” and “democracy” of boredom. Surrealism is what actually fights against absurdism dressed as reality; it is not a condition to which reality will have to adjust itself, but rather the surreal movement of all those who desire a non-absurd life for themselves and all others. The surrealists will use all thinkable means to bring about the end of an absurd state of things.

3.
So-called communism that was in power in Russia and the Eastern bloc, was state boredom with all the regular traits of social life organized by the absurd, guaranteed by a repressive police apparatus; the overthrow of this order in 1989 was a restauration forced by those who refused this form, but sadly did not succeed in abolishing its content. In its place, they got something at least as boring as what preceded it: an informal domination by ex-nomenclature, institutional economists, mobsters and the class defenders of boredom that in totality constitute a similar thing (i.e. a thing like the earlier thing). So its ending has a structure similar to its origin: a surreal movement defeated by its own underdevelopment. Why boredom resulted from a surreal movement has not remained undebated, but the jargon has aged – it is a crucial question for an anti-boredom social movement that wants to realize surrealism without any centralized institution to impose uniformity. This strategy should not base itself on any separate section of the anti-boring class, but must realize from its fragments a new entity that refuses all its previous roles. It must consist of the most intransigent enemies of boredom in a fight against the relations of boredom in their entirety. The fight against boredom cannot be undertaken by reasonable and tactical jacobins, it must be fought by unreasonable enragés using self-shaped weapons.

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Our protagonist, Homo Sapiens has its evolutionary roots in the ape, but she is actually something else. Her poetry is both necessary and possible, but not at all guaranteed. She has a body made for pleasure. Social forces capable of realizing surrealism do not grow steadily and automatically like grain from seed (as some surrealist once claimed while deteriorating mentally); they must be forged, shaped, and re-shaped. What brings them about is the circulation of non-boring events, theories and other useful or purposefully non-useful things. The class of the surreal as it exists today in its absurd form is a bored class, one that must lift itself from its present situation to realize its surreal potential: an unstructured anti-class, fit for circulation. Its point of view is an anti-dialectical one that must be permanently developed to prevent any dialectics from getting in the way.

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The defining sign of the present state of things is generalized boredom, which is the subjective result of living time expropriated. Only where its organized forms are attacked by self-activity (de-boring), and no longer maintained by entertainment, can we speak of a sur-real social movement; this fight begins where imposed activity is refused passively, and imposed passivity is refused actively in both form and content. The character of the self-organized surreal is strutting seductiveness; its theory is what articulates that fight, develops it, makes it understandably and seductively surreal.

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Point six is identical to point five but uses other words. It formulates an anti-political position; politics will seduce no-one, and falling in love is today possible. Extremists must transform themselves into poets and hurt no-one. Causing the unanimous indignation of defenders of boredom will do. Groucho Marx must be reinstated as chief theorist of surrealism. Andre Breton must be unearthed, but not as any sort of leader.

7.
If anything, surrealism seeks pleasure. There is a form of it in the police, but it is falsely interpreted as mental or technical failure, and deemed unpolicelike.

8.
Surrealism wants everything right now. It wants you. If it doesn’t have you yet, you must read this again until you are a surrealist and can explain it to others in your own words. If you are getting bored while reading, re-write this programme and have someone else read it until he gets bored.

9.
Wash, rinse, repeat. There is no ending.

10.
This is the last you will ever hear from us. In the future you and I will make love and say nothing.