Away with the Murder of the Body - Wicked Messengers

...the pleasure of vibrating. singing, talking, moving, raving, playing with our bodies, in every way possible. / We want to rediscover THE PLEASURE OF CREATING PLEASURE, pitilessly beaten down by educational apparatuses programmed to produce worker/consumers to demand

English translation of a situationist and Wilhelm Reich inspired text originally published in France in 1973, including detourned images.

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Originally published in March 1973 as part of Trois Milliards de Pevers: Grande Encyclopedie des Homosexualities (Three Billion Perverts: An Encyclopedia of Homosexualities). This was the twelth issue of the journal Recherces, founded by Felix Guattari in 1965. The issue was seized by the French authorities for breaching moral standards. Guattari was tried and fined 600 Francs for committing an "outrage to public decency". The fine was never paid.

(It is probably worth mentioning that circa 32 pages of the 250 page Encyclopedia covered pedophilia. These were omitted from the republished edition issued in 2021).

A section of the journal was translated into English and published 1974-5 by Wicked Messengers (London). This appears to have used new graphics not included in the original (for example from the English TV sitcom "On The Buses") to accompany the text. The photographs and illustrations in the original French version were far more sexually explicit.

The PDF below is a recreation of the Wicked Messengers edition. For context some photos of the actual Wicked Messengers edition have been included as jpeg files. If you are able to supply a complete scan of this, please leave a comment.