The Futurist Syndrome

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In the turbulent period between 1870 and 1930, the contours on modernity were taking shape, especially the connections between technology, politics, and aesthetics. The trilogy The Nihilist Order traces the genealogy of the nihilist-totalitarian syndrome. The Futurist Syndrome, the third volume of the trilogy, deals with three variants of the avant-garde artistic movements of European Futurism and their fascination with totalitarian regimes.

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In the turbulent period between 1870 and 1930, the contours on modernity were taking shape, especially the connections between technology, politics, and aesthetics. The trilogy The Nihilist Order traces the genealogy of the nihilist-totalitarian syndrome. The Futurist Syndrome, the third volume of the trilogy, deals with three variants of the avant-garde artistic movements of European Futurism and their fascination with totalitarian regimes. These movements, represented here by their leaders, are: Italian Futurism and fascism, represented by Marinetti; Russian Cubo-Futurism and bolshevism, represented by Mayakovsky; and English Vorticism and its glorification of Hitler, represented by Wyndham Lewis. The Italian futurist movement typified the double image of modernism. Worshipping the major features of the modern age such as dynamism, speed, and industrial and urban aesthetics, they added ideological concepts such as heroic technology and mechanized warfare. The Russian version of F

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