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The New Absurdist Manifesto
New absurdism has come to mean chaos, anti-style, anti-genre. This is quite a difficult foundation to build a movement on and is more in line with the principles of Dada than anything else. While the TNA site will forever remain an open writing experiment, free of editors or any kind of guiding hand as far as content or structure is concerned, the Absurdist Monthly Review's goal is to work to define absurdism both historically and in its growing modern form.
Absurdism lacks the manifestos of Dadaism and Surrealism and has had little popularity outside of the theatre community until recent years. Media now refers to any over-the-top or crude comedy as absurdist, completely diluting the term until it's become descriptively useless. Even those working in absurdism today tend to rely on vague, philosophical definitions or merely use analogies to previous authors. No one has come up with a compact, concrete description similar to surrealism's dream metaphor; so, I will try:
Chloe Roche; First year Design & Making Costume Student at Nottingham Trent Univerity
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