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¬ Artaud's role in the Surrealist movement was brief (1925-1927), central, and tragic. (...) Soon after the publication of Breton's first Manifesto of Surrealism, Artaud (as head of the Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes) authored a memo internal to the group, known as the "Déclaration du 27 janvier 1925", which was signed by most of its members, including Breton. This text – a sort of "Surrealist manifesto" – closes with a reiteration of Artaud's earlier position on the creative act, in distinct contradiction to Breton's more poetic model. "Surrealism is no poetic form. It is a scream of the spirit which turns back upon itself and which is desperately determined to crush its shackles, if necessary with material hammers"

-- Allen S. Weiss: Radio, Death and the Devil (in: Wireless Imagination, edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1992, pp.277-278).

1946:	"Operation Crossroads", première démonstration publique de l'arsenal atomique américain depuis Nagasaki, soumet 42'000 soldats à des doses de radiation élevées (Atoll Bikini, Pacifique Sud). Antonin Artaud retourne à Paris après neuf ans d'incarcération.
1947:	22-29 nov: Antonin Artaud enregistre "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu" (dans les studios de la radio française).
1948:	Claude Shannon introduit le terme de "bit" (Binary digIT). Norbert Wiener publie "Cybernetics". Pierre Schaeffer compose "Cinq études de bruits".
1948-50:	Burroughs écrit "Junkie" à Mexico City.