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Jake Jolley - Art and Social Change - Week 6

OPEN THE PRISONS!
DISBAND THE ARMY!
The Surrealist Group

- Prisons and armies share many similarities through cells and barracks, as well as forced continued service for a duration of time.

- "There are no common law Crimes"

- Peace is only a state before the war. In a time of calmness, tensions will build, which will lead to a further catastrophe

- We should strive for equality and unity, where there is no longer a structure of man having power over men.


Cannibalist Manifesto
Oswald De Andrade

- We all act in the nature of cannibalists through our nature and society we have come up in.

- Everyone has differing opinions that others will disagree and push down.

- People will push their problems off to others when it is something they do not understand or want to deal with.

- We are all united through our communal "cannibalism" through our self-centeredness and selfish lack of control.


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