Source: Dada Manifesto (1916, Hugo Ball) – Wikisource, the free online library
dada manifesto
Manifesto 1918/2008 (Lowermodern)
Poisonous sadness
Mark of abstraction
Elementary
Destroy the drawers of the brain
and social organisation
Sow demoralisation everywhere
The universe is a fertile wheel and you are
its fantasy
Ideals and knowledge and boom-boom-boom-boomboom
Relativize your rationality
Thought is a fine thing for philosophy
Psychoanalysis a dangerous disease
Dialectic systemizing the bourgeoise
Against all systems and slimy objectivity
Everything isn’t in order
There is nothing ultimate
No thing ultimate
This is it this is it this is it
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Manifesto 1918/2008 (Gunshot End)
Every object, all objects, feelings and obscurities.
Every apparition and the precise shock of parallel lines are means for the battle.
Respect all individualities in their folly of the moment,
whether serious, fearful, timid, ardent, vigorous,
decided or enthusiastic.
Any offensive or loving thought
It’s all precisely the same thing
Precisely the same thing
Free, free, free: liberty
Contradictions resolved: life
Free to live
You are free to live
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Manifesto 1918/2008 (Spontaneitation)
Do not give a damn
Licking the twilight, floating…
In a mouth filled with honey and shit
Every action a vanity
Measured against eternity
But art but art but art
Don’t hurt nobody
But art but art but art
Private and incomprehensible
We have done violence to the sniveling tendencies
in our nature
What we need is strength
What we need is precision
What we need are works
which will be forever misunderstood
Logic is – a complication
Feels soooooo good
Illusions for conclusions
Logic kills by asphyxiation
Everyone must shout:
“There is a great destruction to be done!”
Destroy your morals!
Destroy your logic!
Destroy your art!
Let lucid goodness shine through!
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