Neo-surrealist

There can no longer be a surrealist literature or text. The revolution of imagination heralded by Louis Aragon and Andre Breton, which manifested through literature and art an image of the sublime unconscious as a representation of the real, everyday is impossible to recreate in our modern world whose imagery and modes of representation have been capitalized in a market mechanism that regularly links psychological behavior with the visual and the written. In our mediated reality there is nothing so solidly human or cultural that can be grasped. The person walking down the street rarely faced with an object that has not been previously subjected, and the capacity to further manipulate the visual space is a transgression easily contained in legal repercussions or a pre-conceived artistic, social, philosophical structures. The pessimistic revolution of surrealism, which heralded the birth of a society that would soon compromise both the physical and psychological realms, cannot be repeated as its dreamers were the last vanguard of a nostalgic reality slipping out of grasp.

However, there is the possibility of a neo-surrealist situation. The images of this world cannot exist in the arcades and boulevards of the present, but must position itself more internally, literally within the complex of a building or other confined space that contains all the resources of a past world. This environment must move one step further into the subconscious, beyond Freudian marks of desire toward a [[Lacanian] birth that situates a dialectic at early childhood. Within the confined space of literality, reversion to childhood, the reconjuring of memories, and the re-historicization of the self are the psychological premises that can reconstitute the surrealist image. The neo-surrealist, if they are to exist, must literally submerge themselves into this world as a paradigm, find themselves wholly sufficient within this environment in regard to a need for imagery. Information and food may exist outside this paradigm, but the imagery that enables the neo-surrealist thinker to slip into the necessary psycho-cultural space must be present in all its manifestations at every moment in a juxtaposed montage, and in an abundance that spans a broadly representative historical time range.

See Elsewhere for more information and the only known (to Wikipedia) example of a neo-surrealist situation.

Also see Paradigmatist.