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“Beauty exists only in struggle” “We want to glorify war” “We want to demolish museums and libraries” Tone aside, these documents are pretty different in what

• Barrin92 3y ago
  that is fair, the futurism of the Italian variety was a lot more explicitly martial. But I think the parallels are still pretty noteworthy. > We believe in the romance of technology, of industry. The eros of the train, the car, the electric light, the skyscraper. And the microchip, the neural network, the rocket, the split atom. > We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath > We believe in ambition, aggression, persistence, relentlessness – strength. > We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. Even the "we .." rhetoric is weirdly similar. But the broader point is really the marriage of technological modernity with a sort of reactionary cultural attitude. The essay The Californian ideology even noticed this a few decades ago. And as far as militarism is concerned, it is noteworthy that this manifesto comes at a time when people seem pretty eager to advocate fusion of the defense sector and tech. This is quite different from the futurism of say, Sergey Brin at early Google, quite a bit darker.