February 22, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
— Susan Sontag,
“Against Interpretation” (1966)
In 1934, André Breton, one of Surrealism’s founders and most controversial exponents, sat in a Parisian café, holding a handful of Mexican jumping beans, rolling them in his palm as they twitched unpredictably.
