The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell's incisive introduction, 'Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas.' Here is a reconsideration of Solanas's infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida's 'The Ends of Man' (written in the same year), Judith Butler's Excitable Speech, Nietzsche's Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas's dark tract. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. In 1968, she was arrested after an assassination attempt on the life Andy Warhol, and imprisoned for three years. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. Summary: 'SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent, and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. About the Book: I Shot Andy Warhol: Includes Valerie Solanass SCUM Manifesto This is the story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist and author of SCUM.

SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. TikTok video from The Andy Warhol Museum (thewarholmuseum): 'Valerie Solanas, who was an American radical feminist known for SCUM Manifesto.

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