Julian Hanna - The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form

I should start by thanking Vassiliki Kolocotroni (the manifesto queen), and the dedicated scholars who have helped write the history of this strange little genre: Mary Ann Caws, Marjorie Perloff, Janet Lyon, Martin Puchner, Gnter Berghaus, Luca Somigli, Laura Winkiel and many others. I also want to thank the editors whove read my thoughts in various forms along the way: Andrew Gallix, Tomo Hill, Christopher Schaberg, Tristan Foster, Joanna Walsh, Russell Bennetts, Yanina Spizzirri, Fernando Sdrigotti, Morehshin Allahyari, Daniel Rourke, Adrian Paterson, Anne Karhio, lvaro Seia, Ana Lusa Valdeira, Madalena Palmeirim, and (always) others. I want to thank Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute for giving me a home, and my friend and colleague James Auger for putting up with my deviant obsessions. Finally I want to thank Eric Craven for helping to bring the manifesto into everyday life, all the friends who have sent me manifestos over the years, and of course my familyto whom I dedicate this book.

Some of the material in this book appeared in different form in 3:AM, Minor Literature[s], Hyperrhiz, E-rea, Cine Qua Non and Berfrois. Also included here in slightly different form is the essay Manifestos: A Manifesto, 2014 by Julian Hanna, as first published on TheAtlantic.com

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Douglas Coupland, City of Glass (Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000).

Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises [1913], in Futurist Manifestos, ed. Umbro Apollonio (Boston: MFA, 2001), pp. 74-88.

Marinetti quoted in Luca Somigli, Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), p. 97.

Ioana Georgescus Artist Page: http://www.ioanageorgescu.com

Chris Kraus, I Love Dick (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 1997), p. 29.

Wyndham Lewis, The Letters of Wyndham Lewis, ed. W. K. Rose (London: Methuen, 1963), p. 309.

Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), p. 252.

Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto [1918], in Manifesto: A Century of Isms, ed. Mary Ann Caws (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), p. 297.

Bruno Latour, An Attempt at a Compositionist Manifesto, New Literary History 41 (2010): pp. 471-90, p. 473.

Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2003), p. 82.

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation (London and New York: Penguin, 2018).

Robert Lowell, Memories of West Street and Lepke, in Life Studies (New York: Vintage, 1959).

Gay Liberation Front, Manifesto [1971], in Peter Stansill and David Zane Mairowitz (eds.), BAMN (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965-70 (New York: Autonomedia, 1999), p. 200.

Queers Read This (1990): http://www.qrd.org/qrd/misc/text/queers.read.this

FM-2030 (Fereidoun M. Esfandiary), UpWingers: A Futurist Manifesto (New York: John Day, 1973).

Marshall McLuhan, Counterblast (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969), p. 53.

Joyce Carol Oates, Notes on Failure, The Hudson Review 35.2 (1982): pp. 231-45, p. 232.

J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965).

Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto [1967], ed. Avital Ronell (London and New York: Verso, 2004).