She described the common association of futurism with fascism as “a bit misleading,” noting that futurists “certainly officially subscribed to Mussolini’s movement and were involved in the ...

If you’re looking for a black-and-white resolution between Fascism and Futurism, forget it. The all-too-human intertwining disparities make it impossible, but nonetheless fascinating.

Italian Futurism, Avant-Garde Spasm, Predicted Fascism Italian Futurism-the Futurism now on display in the Guggenheim’s oddly organized Boccioni’s Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant ...

How futurism took an abrupt right turn in the 20th century Filippo Tommaso Marinetti coined the word futurism in 1909, going on to take an extreme rightward swerve into politics.

Marinetti wanted futurism to be Italian fascism’s official art movement. But the dictator refused, preferring to bestow his favours on different art movements at different times.

Thus, he concluded, “It is not an accident, it is not a misunderstanding, that Italian Futurism has merged into the torrent of Fascism; it is entirely in accord with the law of cause and effect.” ...

Columbia students imagined the future of an artificial intelligence-dominated world on April 21 at the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, presenting coding projects simulating topics from ...

The seminar adopts a cross-disciplinary and comparative focus; and includes such topics as humans and machines; experimental poetics; futurism's ties to anarchism, bolshevism and fascism.

A comprehensive exhibition at Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau, called "Languages of Futurism," commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first Futurist Manifesto by documenting the diversity of ...

On the one-hundred year anniversary of the March on Rome, this centennial seminar provides an in-depth understanding of fascism, its intellectual and political roots, its critique of liberal democracy ...