War and Dissociation: The Case of Futurist Aesthetics

Thanks to their deliberate engagement in state propaganda Italian Futurists deserved a prominent spot in the history of military aesthetics in the 20th century. However, under what looked like an unequivocal expression of support for war, lied a deep philosophical disagreement concerning its existential and epistemological value. The bone of contention concerned the effects of warfare on perception and, consequently, the means of its depiction. The author analyses this intellectual disagreement within the group and focuses, in particular, on its philosophical implications.

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Konrad Wojnowski

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Publication date: June 2019

Publication date (Print): June 2019

Pages: 15-20

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[0001]Jagiellonian University

ul. Urzędnicza 35/14 Kraków, Poland

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM19.3

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Conference name: Politics of the Machine Beirut 2019

Conference acronym: POM2019

Conference number: 2

Conference location: Beirut, Lebanon

Conference date: 11-14 June 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Politics of the Machine

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[1] W. Benjamin 2008 1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility M. W. JenningsB. DohertyT. Y. Levin Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media Harvard University Press Cambridge

[2] U. Boccioni 2016 1914 Futurist Painting Sculpture Getty Research Institute Los Angeles

[3] B. Clark 2002 From Thermodynamics to Virtuality B. Clarke L.D. Henderson From Energy to Information Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature Stanford University Press Stanford

[4] L. DaltonP Galison 2007 Objectivity Zone Books New York

[5] M. DeLanda 1991 War in the Age of Intelligent Machines Zone Books New York

[6] F.T. Marinetti 2009 1909 The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[7] F.T. Marinetti 2009 1911 Electrical War L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[8] F.T. Marinetti 2009 1911 War, the world's only hygiene L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[9] F.T. Marinetti 2009 1915 The futurist political movement L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[10] F.T. MarinettiP Masnata 2009 1933 The Radia: Futurist Manifesto L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[11] C. Poggi 2009 Introduction to part two L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[12] L. Russolo 2009 1913 The Art of Noises: A Futurist Manifesto L. RaineyC. PoggiL. Wittman Futurism: An Anthology Yale University Press New Haven

[13] P. Strożek 2015 Gina Severiniego Pociqg pancerny w akcji Rocznik Historii Sztuki, XL 119 127

[14] T. Terranova 2004 Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age Pluto Press London

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