yaxu, (edited )
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Next time someone calls themselves a 'futurist', maybe read the futurist manifesto they're alluding to..
"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."

Btw the techno-optimist manifesto quotes and references Marinetti who wrote both the futurist and fascist manifestos

cdamian,
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@yaxu they are giving techno, optimism, and the future a bad name!

yaxu,
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@cdamian yes I'm a big fan of all these things!

jarkman,
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@yaxu 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.

yaxu,
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@jarkman that's all fine, thinking about the future is a good thing to do, but they very often uncritically reference Italian fascists

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  • yaxu,
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    @sean_ae @jarkman in university music depts, maybe once or twice a lecture

    luka,
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    @yaxu I agree, and I would never.

    but what about afrofuturism then? has this term escaped the Italian fascist load?

    yaxu,
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    @luka yes very different context to italian fascism I think !

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