Tag Archives: Luigi Russolo

keep your eyes on the road

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Dave

Two hands on the wheel and not on your fly….It will be the end of the world as they know it….Sometimes things are so nuts, the wackiness only enhanced by state sanctioned religious caveats, against such things as women driving … Continue reading →

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over the waterfall with the wave of the future

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Dave

…throw the baby out with the bath water. Futurism and how to wipe out every vestige of the past. It was a passionate manifesto and a disastrous political counterpart… With the launching of futurism, as R.W. Flint once observed, Marineti … Continue reading →

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futurism: hygiene for the unwashed

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Dave

In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading →

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the future was now: faster faster

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Dave

There has always been a link, an association, between Italian futurism and different strains of fascism. Ironically, futurism’s desire to overthrow the old and was followed in a parallel manner by the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp to overturn existing aesthetic … Continue reading →

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