{"id":2304,"date":"2008-12-20T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:17:27","slug":"tupi-or-not-tupi-the-cannibal-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Tupi or not Tupi: the Cannibal Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a Global Dialogue meeting Clarissa introduced me us to Oswaldo de Andrade&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corpse.org\/archives\/issue_11\/manifestos\/deandrade.html\">Cannibal Manifesto<\/a>. This is one of those rare documents we should all read. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cannibal_Manifesto\">Manifesto Antrop\u00f3fago<\/a> dates from 1928 and celebrates Brazilian remediation (such a stuffy word compared to &#8220;cannibalism&#8221;) of other literatures. The third line, which is in English in the orginal, captures the idea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tupi or not tupi that is the question.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tupi_people\">Tupi<\/a> were an indigenous people of Brazil who were supposed to have ritually eaten their enemies. Not to belabor the point, but the joke eats Shakespeare and English into a modernist manifesto simultaneously rejects Western patterns. The manifesto starts with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only Cannibalism unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unique law of the world. The disguised expression of all individualisms, all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could be the law of blogging that eats the web or the law of social media that eat their versions. Remediation with teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Global Dialogue meeting Clarissa introduced me us to Oswaldo de Andrade&#8217;s Cannibal Manifesto. This is one of those rare documents we should all read. The Manifesto Antrop\u00f3fago dates from 1928 and celebrates Brazilian remediation (such a stuffy word compared to &#8220;cannibalism&#8221;) of other literatures. The third line, which is in English in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tupi or not Tupi: the Cannibal Manifesto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-multimedia-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8802,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}