BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4ddba1ef-f814-4961-95dd-45b27898a9b8@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T150520Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T200000 SUMMARY:Marcel Mariën Theory of Immediate World Revolution DESCRIPTION:City Lights and Verso Books present A panel discussion with A nna O’Meara\, Abigail Susik\, and Isaac Cronin celebrating the publicati on of Theory of Immediate World Revolution: A Handbook for the Avant-Gar de by Marcel Mariën Edited by Anna O’Meara Translated by Nadège Lejeune\ , Anna O’Meara and Ian Thompson Contributions by François Coadou and Abi gail Susik Published by Verso Books In 1958\, Belgian surrealist Marcel Mariën drafted a plan to topple capitalism on a global scale—achievable in a single year\, in any place\, at any time. The catch? It required th ree hundred accomplices\, and it was destined to fail. Mariën’s text dar es to imagine the unimaginable\, offering a blueprint as much for play a s for politics. By fusing the spirit of surrealism with the urgency of t he atomic age\, Mariën exposes the thin line between theory and performa nce\, reality and fiction. This book captures one of his boldest gesture s: a proposal not to succeed\, but to alter the very way we think about revolution. Marcel Mariën (1920-1993) was a writer\, artist\, and filmma ker immersed in a wide breadth of criticism and philosophy. His publicat ions and writings included essays\, journalism\, fiction\, poetry\, hist ories\, autobiography\, scripts\, and genre-bending experiments. The you ngest member of the Belgian Surrealist movement\, Mariën would become bo th a critic and a historian of the group\, publishing prolific oeuvres a nd correspondences of Belgian Surrealism in its aftermath. While Mariën’ s political alignments shifted over the course of his life\, he consiste ntly upheld the necessity to reject fascism\, dedicating many of his wri tings to understanding fascism’s ideological functionalities. Born in An twerp\, Mariën fought for Belgium during World War II. For nine months\, he was held in Görlitz as a prisoner of war. Mariën spent most of his l ife in Brussels and he also spent significant time in New York City and Communist China. Anna O’Meara received her Ph.D. in Art History & Visual Studies from the University of Victoria in 2025. She is currently a res earch fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale Univ ersity. Research interests include the 20th Century avant-garde\, the Si tuationist International\, and Belgian Surrealism. In terms of recent pu blications\, in 2022\, she co-edited On the Poverty of Student Life with Mehdi El Hajoui for Common Notions. Abigail Susik is Joint Editor of Bl oomsbury’s Transnational Surrealism Series and author of Surrealist Sabo tage and the War on Work (Manchester UP\, 2021). She is the editor of se veral volumes\, including Surrealism and Film after 1945: Absolutely Mod ern Mysteries (Manchester UP\, 2021) and Radical Dreams: Surrealism\, Co unterculture\, Resistance (Penn State UP\, 2022). Isaac Cronin is a writ er\, editor\, and videographer who has published several books under the LBC imprint Cruel Hospice. His work spans various creative projects and publications. He is the author of Nothing Happened: A Situationist Memo ir. What has been said of Theory of Immediate World Revolution “What if the path to world revolution lay through the actions of an invisible com mittee pulling the strings through an advertising and marketing company? What if you could fund the revolution with a line of credit which\, aft er it succeeds\, you wouldn’t need to repay? Marcel Mariën’s delirious\, surrealious\, Swiftian text from 1958 remains a delightful manual for t he meme wars in and against the disintegrating spectacle.” – McKenzie Wa rk\, author of Leaving the Twentieth Century: Situationist Revolutions “ Published in 1958 by Les Lèvres nues\, this book was written against the specific backdrop of the threat of nuclear destruction that then pitted the Eastern Bloc against the Western world. For Marcel Mariën\, it was nothing more and nothing less than proposing a method for seizing power aimed at “overthrowing capitalism across the entire world it controls\, within a fixed timeframe of one year—a programme that could be implement ed at any moment and everywhere at once ”\, by turning one of its own we apons against it: advertising. Political fiction\, joke\, or real-life m anual for a short-term revolution\, this work—which met with no success at the time—is one of the most astonishing documents produced by Surreal ism in Belgium\, demonstrating its inseparable link to political action. – Xavier Canonne\, author of René Magritte: The Revealing Image Made po ssible by support from the City Lights Foundation\n\nTickets: https://ci tylights.com/events/marcel-marien-theory-of-immediate-world-revolution/\ n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/4ddba1ef-f814-4961-95dd-45b27898a9b 8 LOCATION:CCSF North Beach / Chinatown Bookstore\, CA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/4ddba1ef-f814-4961-95dd-45b27898a9b 8 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR