THE SITUATIONISTS
The world is in flux, prompting people to build new stories and forms of communication in response. Creative possibilities are boundless as old narratives break down and new ones emerge.
LinkThus “The Simultaneous City,” with texts spanning from about 1909 to 1915, explores the technological myths of the modern city that are archetypal to the Futurist imagination: new machines that abolish distance and modify our senses, new simultaneous perceptions of the street, the crowd, and nightlife, the dynamic clash of competing forces, and the... See more
Laura Wittman • Futurism: An Anthology (2009)
That aspect of art that really did fuse with the everyday becomes almost indistinguishable from neurotic symptoms: Interest cycles through irritating obsessions and boredom; cuteness reeks of manipulation that provokes phobias and disgust; zaniness performs hysteria or mania. Everyday art is the kipple of once-great genre tropes: cuteness is the pa
... See moreMcKenzie Wark • Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century
