Post #941647

2024-05-06 08:12 UTC

Next time someone calls themselves a &#39;futurist&#39;, maybe read the futurist manifesto they&#39;re alluding to.. &quot;We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman. We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.&quot; Btw the techno-optimist manifesto quotes and references Marinetti who wrote both the futurist and fascist manifestos

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@luka@sonomu.club 2024-05-06 08:18

@yaxu@post.lurk.org I agree, and I would never. but what about afrofuturism then? has this term escaped the Italian fascist load?

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@jarkman@chaos.social 2024-05-06 08:41

@yaxu@post.lurk.org I agree that the Futurists were terrible people (albeit sometimes hilarious). But there are also futurists, people who are thinking about the future, who are not Futurists.

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@cdamian@rls.social 2024-05-06 08:53

@yaxu@post.lurk.org they are giving techno, optimism, and the future a bad name!

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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza 2024-05-06 11:22

@yaxu@post.lurk.org when studying the history of sound art etc. ages ago at uni their dreadful fascistic inclinations wasn’t even touched on. I did feel for the lecturer though; other excerpts re incorporating “any” sounds into music seemed an important early stage to later history, and he had such limited time to fit such a large swathe of how ideas connected.

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