McSweeney’s Issue 73 (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos

McSweeney’s three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with a subjective and selective group of manifestos, all from the twentieth century and onward, all roaring with outrage and plans for a better world. Featuring life- and history-changing works from André Breton, Bertrand Russell, Valerie Solanas, Huey Newton, John Lee Clark , Dadaists, Futurists, Communists, Personists, and many more past and future -ists, plus brand-new work from brilliant radical thinkers Eileen Myles and James Hannaham . Let this incendiary collection light your whole world on fire. From the introduction: We need manifestos. They are often strange, ill-considered, and regrettable. They are just as often brilliant and pivotal in changing government, art, and the direction of the human animal. But always manifestos are passionate, always they command attention and use language for perhaps its most urgent purposes–the rattling of complacent minds. Featuring: The Manifesto of Futurism (1909) by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Dada Manifesto (1918) by Tristan Tzara Dadaism in Life and Art (1918) by Richard Huelsenbeck Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) by André Breton Manifesto (1952) by John Cage The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955) by Bertrand Russell Personism: A Manifesto (1959) by Frank O’Hara Second Declaration of Havana (1962) by Fidel Castro Plan of Delano (1966) by United Farm Workers The Ten-Point Program (1966) by Huey Newton S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967) by Valerie Solanas Principles of the Asian American Political Alliance (1968) by Asian American Political Alliance Redstockings Manifesto (1969) by Redstockings Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female (1969) by Frances M. Beal The Gay Manifesto (1970) by Carl Wittman The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) by Combahee River Collective Why Cheap Art? (1984) by Peter Schumann The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (1988) by Guerrilla Girls I want a president (1988) by Zoe Leonard Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010) by Edwidge Danticat The First Manifesto of the Museum of Everyday Life (2011) by Clare Dolan No Stage (2015) by John Lee Clark Manifesto for World Revolution (2023) by Kalle Lasn Press Conference for a Tree (2023) by Eileen Myles Destroy All Manifestos (2023) by James Hannaham —- ISBN: 9781952119767