SCUM Manifesto

SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

SCUM Manifesto
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Author: Valerie Solanas
Introduction: Avital Ronell
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05
ISBN: 1859845533
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Verso

Book Reviews of SCUM Manifesto

Book Review: a lot of people don't get it.
Summary: 1 Stars

What many other reviewers seem to have missed is that this manifesto is a philosophical work, and like many other works of philosophy, it is not to be taken literally in many instances but rather to be interpreted beyond what is written on the page. The mention of killing off "man" is to be taken as the killing off of the notion and institution of masculinity. Masculinity, as demonstrated time and again, is a destructive, isolating, and oppressive force within the world and serves no other purpose than the to enforce subservience certainly over women, but also over all people, whether mentally or physically, in their everyday lives. Solanas calls for the abolition of masculinity much in the same way that Nietzche calls for the abolition of humanity as it is so as to enable the Ubermensch to emerge. They are both looking towards a more positive future, even if many perceive them as being evil, psychotic, or anti-human. I am male and view this as an important and life-affirming work of writing and remain to be confused as to how it could be viewed as otherwise. I gave this one star so that this review would be read, much in the same way that by shooting Warhol Solanas enabled the spread of her ideas farther and faster than by any other means, in reality it deserves at least four. Enjoy.

Summary of SCUM Manifesto

This new edition provocatively places SCUM as a classic among The Communist and other radical manifestos.

SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time-predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts-but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.

The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell's incisive introduction, "Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas." Here is a reconsideration of Solanas's infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida's "The Ends of Man" (written in the same year), Judith Butler's Excitable Speech, Nietzsche's ?bermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos.

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