Response to Mattias Forshage's criticism of the book “The Exteriority Crisis”
[Some months ago appeared, under the initiative of Eric Bragg, Bruno Jacobs and Eugenio Castro the book The exteriority crisis. From the city limits and beyond. Few months later, our friend Mattias Forshage wrote a criticism to that book, as well as to some particular contributions, mostly related to the Madrid group members who participates in the book. As a consequence, those members of the Madrid group and also some friends concerned have written a response to Mattias' criticism. Both, Mattias and all of us have considered that the discussion is of the most relevance and that it has to circulate within the international surrealist community. Texts are available in the following section of this webpage:http://gruposurrealistademadrid.org/textos/otros-textos-el-surrealismo-en-su-presente]
Madrid, 30th April 2009
Dear Mattias,
This is our response to a part of your criticism of the book The Exteriority Crisis. From the City Limits And Beyond. As you will be able to notice, we have focused on what we consider as the important part of that criticism around which we think that a fecund debate could be opened and not a regression into some byzantine discussion. These aspects are: absence of meaning within exteriority, explanation of the idea of a “crisis of exteriority” and absence of a theory (...) Leer más