Annotating and Becoming: Valerie Solanas on Valerie Solanas September 18, 2017 Self-annotated copy of Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto; accessed at the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library; photo by Cory Tamler. This spring, the pilot program of the welcomed a cohort of twelve students to participate in two sessions—one at the Graduate Center Library, and the other in the Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room of the New York Public Library. We collectively discussed methods for engaging primary source materials in our research at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and encountered a variety of archival and rare materials—Timothy Leary’s papers, commonplace books, Patti Smith’s notebooks, books in parts, and many more. As a group, we grappled with a wide variety of questions, from citation management to experiencing enchantment, and what it means to encounter primary source materials as embodied readers in space and time. A few of our participants volunteered to share their reflections on this process in the form of blog entries, which we are excited to share in the months ahead as documentation of the work we accomplished together and as examples of the possibilities primary research affords. In this second post of our series, Cory Tamler, a student in the PhD program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY, brings her disciplinary background in performance studies to bear on a copy of the SCUM Manifesto, selected for the Seminar by Thomas Lannon of the New York Public Library.
This book, published by Olympia Press in 1971, is held in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library, and is heavily annotated by Valerie Solanas herself. With close attention to bibliographic detail, Cory discusses the act of annotation as a textual performance of becoming for Solanas—who negotiates the text’s unique publishing history and its consequences for her legacy in both the literal and figurative margins.Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, September 2017 Annotating and Becoming: Valerie Solanas on Valerie Solanas Cory Tamler September 2017 As a performance scholar I found myself drawn during the Collaborative Research Seminar to self-annotation: as a residue of temporality in archival materials, as a. For this post, I spent time with the SCUM Manifesto, a seminal feminist polemic annotated by its author Valerie Solanas. Solanas is also remembered as the woman who shot Andy Warhol—an act occasionally interpreted as an actualization of the ideas in the manifesto, which opens with a paragraph that exhorts “civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females” to “destroy the male sex.” Her annotations here speak to particular views and controversies legible at length elsewhere—for example,.
These annotations also place the New York Public Library as archive and public memory repository in conversation with itself: the “defaced” copy is one that Solanas checked out from the Library in order to mark it up before returning it to circulation 1. In the spirit of the Seminar, I approached the annotated volume as an object of potential that speaks to the act of annotation itself, an annotation as a living gesture that brings a text into a new kind of relationship with different layers of time. The book’s red cover is scraped raw by Solanas’s black pen marks.
She’s crossed out her own name under the title with such vigor that in places the white pith of the paper cover shows ragged through the red and black. Drag the pad of your finger over it, you’ll feel the torn surface. Beside it, she’s written “by Maurice Girodias,” as if to reassign authorship to her publisher. Her name, though, is still legible—the act of defacing was more important than the actual erasure of information, as if she can’t decide between protesting the personal (male) affront and asserting her authorship.
In fact, annotation allows her to do both at once. Throughout the book it’s the periods added to SCUM that seem to evoke the angriest reaction. The appellation is (re)written on the covers and the title and copyright pages as “S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men)”. “This is not the title,” Solanas writes beside S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) MANIFESTO on the cover of the annotated volume, and signs her name. Flipping to the copyright page, you find “S.C.U.M.” circled, slashed through with a horizontal line, and elaborated with the commentary, “NEVER!!
V.S.” While it’s true that SCUM is never referred to within the manifesto text as an acronym for anything, Breanne Fahs notes that the expanded term appears at least in an audition notice posted publicly by Solanas 2 and in a Village Voice ad she wrote in 1967 3. Her insistent handwritten denials here mark the passage of time distinctly. A major event has happened since 1967: Solanas shot Warhol in 1968, and the edition she’s marking up sensationalizes this unashamedly (in the preface, in the introduction, on the back cover) to package the work.
It transforms Valerie Solanas into an object to be considered with horrified fascination rather than the thinking, acting, radical subject she wants to be. It paints her as a woman caught within the broken logic of maleness: a male female, to use her term. Male females are, according to Solanas, the real enemy. Little wonder she would deny an expansion of “SCUM” that can be used to support this picture.
The names of things are important. It’s not just the title; it’s names other than her own that provoke a reaction from her. It’s like she wants to drown them out. The name of the author of the introduction, writer Vivian Gornick, is circled and explained to be “one of the fleas riding on my back,” a statement that’s signed “Valerie Solanas.” She calls Gornick and Girodias out by name. She calls out his “flea copy editor” by name. The epithet she chooses is telling. Girodias, Gornick, et al are all “fleas.” They’re parasites and she can’t seem to bear their presence in the book.
She wants them eradicated, exterminated. She sprays her own name liberally across the pages like a pesticide, punctuating most of the annotations with her own name or initials. Though the first few pages are crisscrossed in markings, giving the impression of abundance, the interior annotations are few. Despite her early handwritten note attesting that the book is “full of sabotaging ‘typos’ & Girodias’s flea copy editorchanged words,” Solanas doesn’t point any of them out within the text. On the back cover she returns with a vengeance (and with her black ballpoint), redacting paragraphs and liberally appending “flea” as adjective, writing in tall letters that encompass half a page: “LIES! LIES!” The amount of attention paid to the covers suggest a preoccupation with the book’s presentation and, indeed, at times the annotations read like an ad campaign. In one, she writes, “Read all about fleas in my next book to be titled Valerie Solanas.” For whom did Solanas mark up this volume?
In whose hands does she imagine it, her wounded book? Is she leaving notes for the fleas? For S.C.U.M.? For future scholars or archivists? For a past version of her own self, in assurance that she hasn’t forgotten what it is she set out to do? For whose eyes is it meant when she turns to the back cover and, in the sentence “Then we were horrified when she shot Andy Warhol in 1968, just to make a point,” crosses out the final clause and writes above it “lie”? During the Collaborative Research Seminar we tried to think beyond the limitations of the practical and to imagine what might be possible within archives.
I got fired up by instances of time leaving marks in an archive, on an object; an object’s temporal layers. What drew me to the annotated SCUM Manifesto is the way it contains two characters who are the same person. It’s a record of a conversation between the author and herself, but it’s a performative conversation, enacted for an audience (but what audience?) that was already historicizing her through public characterizations of her sexuality and mental health. It resists the freezing action of historicization, existing within time dynamically. In her annotations, Solanas responds to who she was, and to what she’s becoming. As framed by the fleas, she’s becoming the angry feminist who shot Warhol.
She’s becoming the mad ideologue who would insist we need to “destroy the male sex.” Solanas sees and responds to her book as a performance affected by personal scandal and shaped by exterior critique. Her response to this performance is another performance that looks backwards, outwards, and forwards. Back at Solanas before the fleas infested her book.
Out at whomever she imagines is listening, including the fleas themselves. Forward to her next book and its readers—and perhaps to future audiences, to me, sitting in the Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, weighting down the pages with little beige snakes of fabric filled with sand. To anyone experiencing the odd sensation of a direct infusion, through her fingers, of Solanas’s brilliance, urgency, instability, and rage.Cory Tamler 1 Breanne Fahs, “The Radical Possibilities of Valerie Solanas,” Feminist Studies, Vol. Carcassonne die katharer pdf printer. 3, The 1970s Issue (Fall, 2008), pp. Another behavior of time in archives: its slipperiness. Fahs, a noted Solanas scholar, dates the NYPL edition to 1970, but its catalog record dates to 1971. Additional research will have to be conducted to resolve the discrepancy.
2 Breanne Fahs, Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM, New York: The Feminist Press, 2014, p.
Abstract In contrast to celebratory chronicles that sanitize queer history, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto casts bad girls as the central protagonists in the drama of social change. Archiving the adolescent urges and puerile political yearnings of degenerate dykes, it shows revolution to be a dirty girl’s game.
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You can find a copy for free online somewhere. If a person is determined to interpret it as satire, then no force on earth can possibly change their mind. The book does look like an outpouring of delusional ravings from where I sit, rather unambiguously so. Organizationally, it is hard to follow. But that's just me.
One thing I was puzzled by is, after the male half of the human race is gone, their labor will need to be replaced by 'automation,' a technological marvel that will miraculously take care of pretty much everything and still isn't technologically possible as of 2016. Even so, who will build, power and maintain this magic 'automation'?
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Presumably, the 'automation' will lubricate and repair itself, periodically disposing of its inevitable broken components and waste products, seeing as how a planet full of fat, happy women enjoying lesbian sex on huge piles of satin pillows arranged around giant public chocolate fondue fountains and babbling waterfalls of crisp, cold Chardonnay probably can't be persuaded to go do it. Especially seeing as how money will be abolished and women will presumably need to resort to bartering stuff in the absence of a common medium of exchange; I say that with confidence because every attempt in history to abolish people's ability to buy and sell stuff has instead resulted in the emergence of an illicit black market of buying and selling. But, hey, I'm just man-thinking here with my laughable, sputtering, non-groovy little man-brain so of course I can't be expected to 'get it.'
It does sound like a big theme of the book is: technology can replace men, since men's only real contribution is sperm and physical strength. Given that it was written in the late 60s, I find it hard to read that worldview as satire, considering that there wasn't anything comparable to a 'technology will replace women' theme, in the same way that automation was replacing male jobs, but not the role of women, except perhaps in the automation of the home. If it's satire, it sounds like really poorly-done satire that isn't really satire on a conscious level. But, again, I haven't read it. It does sound like a big theme of the book is: technology can replace men That was a big theme in those times. Shulamith Firestone, who was contemporary with Solanas, for example, thought that childbirth was the tool through which women were oppressed and was keen on the idea of developing artificial wombs that could free women from their biology: Firestone wrote in The Dialectic of Sex: 'The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature.
Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.' From Julie Bindel's. Is it clearly not satire but instead the serious delusions of a lunatic? I think you may be overlooking the fact that so many leading feminists - often by their own admission - have (or have had) serious mental health issues. They often seem to see it as proof that the system we live in is so inimical to women that it literally drives them insane.
The other possibility - that they might actually just be insane - seems not to trouble their fevered brows. Sylvia Plath was and still is read for the quality of her writing. She was well regarded before getting the customary career boost from suicide. I read The Bell Jar after leaving school. I've not been badly depressed or a married woman so it was a window into an unfamiliar world. It helped me understand my mother's generation.
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And depression, when I came across it. Her and Janet Frame's work provided some ideas to understand it. Her confessional style was seen as self-indulgent by some but to others she is valued for articulating things that didn't get expressed much at the time.
I don't read much poetry at all but bought Ariel and it survived many bookshelf weedings. I haven't read it, but I find it extremely hypocritical to defend it as 'satire', when the same people who defend it have the biggest stick up their ass when the joke is on their expenses.
In a perfect world women would make fun of men, men would make fun of women, straights would make fun of gays, gays would make fun of straights, whites would make fun of blacks and vice versa and so on and so forth. However, that's not the world we live in.
We live in a world where the straight, white, able-bodied cis-male is pure evil and oppresses everyone else, according to them anyway (I haven't heard of right-handed people being bashed yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if that comes next). So seeing how feminists tend to tone-police everyone else but refuse to be tone-policed themselves and cry sexism and misogyny if people use their own arguments against them, I'm inclined to believe it's an actual delusional rant. And even if it's not, seeing the sociopolitical PC-culture of today it should definitely be treated as 'problematic', not celebrated. But feminism and cognitive dissonance go hand in hand, so it doesn't exactly surprise me that gender studies professors praise it.
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