Artaud On America

A Madman Reveals The Lunacy

aleXander hirka
Counter Arts
Published in
6 min readNov 15, 2023

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The author, mid 1970s, taking a bubble bath with Antonin Artaud.

Autodidacticism has been the path I’ve traveled.

A high school dropout at seventeen, and by age twenty I was writing high school courses for La Salle Extension University — famous for advertising high school and other correspondence courses on matchbooks.
This was the early 1970s and they didn’t check credentials so my demeanor and skills got my foot in the…

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aleXander hirka
Counter Arts

Writer, visual artist, philosopher, autodidact, curmudgeon. More than half of what i do is make believe. https://alexanderhirka.nyc