Let’s Murder the Moonshine: Selected Writings
F.T. Marinetti
“Marinetti’s writings—manifestoes, fictions, political writings, memoirs and his own inimitable parole in liberta—speak to our time with a sort of science fiction prescience. Marinetti foresaw what it would be like to live in an electrical, and, by extension, a digital universe, what role advertising would play, what values would henceforth be assigned to the medium as message. As such his predictions are sometimes childish and frequently irritating: Marinetti was, in many ways, a hard-headed materialist who knew that there was no return, in our century, to the bucolic world of the Fathers. He also knew that art could no longer insulate itself from the experience of the masses, that kitsch was not so much the antithesis of art as it was a condition of its production… His manifestoes, a major selection of which is included here, whether on poetry or painting, city planning (‘Down with Past-Loving Venice’) cinema, music, dance or social life, are superb artworks in their own right, combining, as they do, a hyperbolic rhetoric and violent imagery with witty, common-sense aphorism and comic self-deprecation.” Includes “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,” “The New Religion-Morality of Speed,” “Electrical War (A Futurist-Vision Hypothesis)” and “The Pleasure of Being Booed.”
Publisher: Sun and Moon
Paperback: 285 pages