Welcome to ACFM, the home of the Weird Left. I'm Nadia Idol and I'm joined as usual by my

friends Keir Milburn. Hello. And Jeremy Gilbert. Hello. And in this episode we are talking about surrealism.

So guys why are we talking about surrealism now? Why do we care about this topic? Well it's a very

proximate reason which is somebody on Twitter called At Blooms in Utopia prompted us to discuss

surrealism saying he just read the chapter in Robin DG Kelly's book Black Freedom is it? I think the box

called. And it just made me think that surrealism is just a classic ACFM topic and we've had it on

our list for a while and thought yeah actually it's really is time that we discussed surrealism

because it is if you learn a look around the history of the Weird Left it is inescapable I think.

Just to stress we did have already have it on the list just before all the friends who suggested

topics we haven't done yet feel slighted. Yeah and obviously surrealism as an intellectual aesthetic

artistic political projects in the 20th century mainly but also arguably in the 21sts encapsulates

a whole load of themes that have always been central to our interests and concerns on the show

and the surrealist movement was really an inspiration to and a provocation for a lot of the

theory and philosophy that we talk about and draw on so there are many reasons for talking about it.

Yeah I agree I think it's a it's a quintessential ACFM topic because because of that kind of

the weirdness that comes out with surrealism and I think I'm interested in exploring both

understanding more about the movement and who they were and what they were trying to achieve and

I think they raised some interesting questions but also frankly I know this is a bit of a

stereotype but I am interested in the in the visual art because I find it really kind of peaks my

interest so and there's also a dali film out I think so those are all good reasons yes there is

and I think those are all good reasons for talking about surrealism now. So if you wanted to talk

about why now as well I think the other thing to think about is that there is a definite cultural

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