Ironiser l’écriture programmatique. Le manifeste dadaïste

Abstract

The present article tries to define the inherent philosophy of the creation of Dadaism in the field of programmatic writing manifested through the form of a literary manifesto, a production that elaborates itself paradoxically, just at the level of the spontaneity (‘s mimicry), of the ludic-poetical practice. Its mechanisms self-contain both a natural legitimation that organically belongs to the foundation of some literary-artistic schools (like Dadaism and Constructivism, in European Avant-garde and Cannibalism or Cultural Anthropophagy in Brasilian Modernism), and a de-legitimizing phase, that gets justified itself through the cynical-cynical reason about which Peter Sloterdijk speaks (1983). Important for both the Avant-garde’s poetic as for the history and evolution of Art in general, the Dada manifesto became, at the beginning of the 20th Century, a form of reevaluating the artistic codes, a manner of putting under discussion the Creator and the Receiver as well, a productive strategy of irony and humor, of absurd and contradiction poetry of innovating the aesthetic languages.