Peculiar Mormyrid Journal

17/09/2025

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2025/09/14/things-i-have-learnt-whilst-hallucinating-at-work-by-joseph-simpkins/

by Joseph Simpkins The office is the least likely place you’d expect to encounter the marvellous. In this dungeon, built upon layers and layers of bureaucracy, the worker shuffles into their drab desk. They slave away (or at least try to make it look like they are slaving away) so that they can av...

09/05/2025

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2025/05/09/why-i-wrote-non-stop-for-12-hours-by-j-d-halcro/

On the 21st of September 2024 I wrote non-stop for twelve hours. I set up a desk in Cecil Square, Margate, between two bus stops. On my desk I had a sign that read: I am writing non-stop for twelve hours ! PLEASE HELP ! Tell me your dreams, secrets, confessions, stories, desires, memories, concerns,

16/03/2025

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2025/03/11/what-if-against-the-settler-colonial-state/

Against the settler-colonial state - here and now, everywhere and everywhen. January 26 2025 Brothers and sisters, we have much business to transact so let’s get right down to it. We aim at the spiritual, political, industrial, and social. We want to work out our own destiny. (Worimi man Fred Mayn...

19/02/2025

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20/10/2023

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2023/10/20/blunt-like-an-idea/

At that point of the mind where thought refracts into action and the subtle shiver of a synapse becomes a blunt object… SOMETHING still hovers above all nuanced rationalizations for the administration of empire. SOMETHING stirs for the total liberation of thought and life from the artificial const...

04/07/2023

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2023/07/03/the-surrealist-group-in-australia-burnin-all-illusion-tonight/

Burnin’ all illusion tonight: the revolutionary struggle against colonial violence continues. In the wake of the police murder of 17-year-old, Nahel M, in Nanterre, the working-class youth of France and its external colonies have set the empire brilliantly aflame with their incandescent rage. Pres...

26/06/2023

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21/04/2023

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2023/04/14/verbomancy-sasha-vlad-dan-stanciu/

A captivating new book of images and texts (or should we say, charms?) has appeared under the appropriate title of Verbomancy. A new kind of inverse prophecy appears here by means of a strange game. Rather than simply combine images and text in a predictable manner, Sasha Vlad began by finding or cr...

04/03/2023

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2023/03/03/the-aim-of-surrealist-poetry/

By Craig Wilson The point of surrealist poetry is not to simply write something off the wall or weird...it's to break down the walls between your conscious and unconscious mind, to integrate different levels of the mental personality by tapping into the continuous stream of images flowing beneath th...

08/02/2023

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UNDERTAKER & UNDERSELVES: A SURREALIST EXCAVATION
What is a signal, and how deeply does it ring? Nobody is supposed to hear a peep from the oubliette, and yet we somehow perceive a low growl, an infectious density that pulls our air-adapted minds well below our accustomed chaos. Above ground, walls and obstacles hem us in from every side. Surficial catastrophe lights up at the slightest breeze, and darkness loses its prerogative. The time has come to tunnel down; to see how deep the “rising sign” really goes. We come to find that there is no luxury greater than the cavernous movie palace beneath the street as it projects the hidden desires of the world above.

MEET THE UNDERSELVES!
It’s a carnival in the underworld, where moles and monsters alike build unfathomable sideshows, and where cicadas dwell dreaming for decades about their single orgiastic scream like a carny barker inviting us to gaze upon the freakshow of our own subconscious. An octopus, with subterranean galleries representing octopodian arms—far more than eight—intertwining into unfathomable rat kings that keep on unfolding on themselves. Even the Underself can’t be more than a membrane, a seismic organ.

31/12/2022

https://peculiarmormyrid.com/2022/12/31/corridor-of-mirrors-1948-a-very-special-edition/

You’d have thought what with all the attention over the years, the surrealists would have pretty much hit the bottom in terms of “enlargements” for certain films. Surely Edna Romney’s 1948 cacklefest The Corridor of Mirrors has been done to death? And yet, it just happens that, while giving ...

20/12/2022