Lucid Materialism

Bodies, Drawing and Magical Ecosophy in the Work of Antonin Artaud

The book identifies and examines three core strands of Antonin Artaud’s (1896–1948) late work to find a punctilious philosophy of art, bodies and the planet. Moving beyond the established image of Artaud as a madman and man-of-the-theatre – a character to be made available to the “real philosophers” – Lucid Materialism brings together his writings on the self and the body, his expanded drawing practice and his adventures to the geological and cultural singularities of Sierra Tarahumara (Mexico) and Árrain Mhór (Ireland) to reveal a rigorous, complex – and surprisingly contemporary – ethics of self-protection, self-creation and inhabitation.