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Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New TechnologyTropes of Progress in F. T. Marinetti’s Early Futurist Texts

Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology: Tropes of Progress in F. T. Marinetti’s... [This chapter describes F. T. Marinetti’s glorification of early twentieth-century technologies such as the wireless. Marinetti wanted his audiences to embrace the values of progress as represented through speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity. Marinetti’s art makes use of parole in libertà—words in freedom—to accentuate the aesthetic goals of minimalism and telegraphic prose. He advocates an aesthetic based on reducing expressions to the fewest number of words. Marinetti’s art reconstructs the cultural values of industrialization by promoting textual efficiency. Even in Marinetti’s art there is something technical about his desire for words to capture efficiently the essence of the technology, idea, or, most importantly, action. Also, Marinetti glorifies technologies for their speed and war potential. Unlike other high modernist authors, Marinetti values the destructive nature of new modern technologies. His manifestos exaggerate tropes of progress, advocating a love of mechanization.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New TechnologyTropes of Progress in F. T. Marinetti’s Early Futurist Texts

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2012
ISBN
978-94-007-3976-5
Pages
109 –130
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-3977-2_5
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Abstract

[This chapter describes F. T. Marinetti’s glorification of early twentieth-century technologies such as the wireless. Marinetti wanted his audiences to embrace the values of progress as represented through speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity. Marinetti’s art makes use of parole in libertà—words in freedom—to accentuate the aesthetic goals of minimalism and telegraphic prose. He advocates an aesthetic based on reducing expressions to the fewest number of words. Marinetti’s art reconstructs the cultural values of industrialization by promoting textual efficiency. Even in Marinetti’s art there is something technical about his desire for words to capture efficiently the essence of the technology, idea, or, most importantly, action. Also, Marinetti glorifies technologies for their speed and war potential. Unlike other high modernist authors, Marinetti values the destructive nature of new modern technologies. His manifestos exaggerate tropes of progress, advocating a love of mechanization.]

Published: Feb 10, 2012

Keywords: Ahistoricity; Avant-garde; Efficiency; Futurism; Marinetti; Modernism; Progress; Rhetoric; Technology; Words in freedom

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