Jonty Claypole
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first heard Dec 2025
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But just down the road from Joyce, one of the most radical and significant art movements of the 20th century was coming into being, and that is
Is Dadarism.
Now, Dada is fascinating because there is no evidence that Joyce participated in any way whatsoever with Dadar events or Dadar artists.
And yet there are amazing similarities between what Joyce is doing in Ulysses and what the Dadarists, artists, and writers were doing.
So Dada emerged as an art movement from this kind of profound disgust at what Ulysses do.
Europe had fallen into in mass war.
And the artists and writers who founded Dada said what has enabled war to happen is stuffy tradition, is the way that language is used, the way that language is controlled by institutions, the way it's used for purple prose and journalism.
And in the Dada Manifesto of nineteen sixteen, an artist called
Hugo Bald lay out their agenda.
And he he writes, How can one get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, Europeanized, enervated, by saying dada.
He's saying in order to defeat the language that brought us into war, the language of international treaties, of the church, of government, of the army, we need to turn to nonsense.
By saying Dada, Dada is the word soul, Dada is the pawn chop, Dada is the world's best lily milk soap.
I don't want words that other people have invented.
All the words are other people's inventions.
I want my own stuff, my own rhythm.
And vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.
It will serve to show how articulated language comes into being.
I want the word where it ends and begins.
Dadar is the heart of words.
Now, that sort of manifesto speak.
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