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Editor's Foreword | p. ix |
Translator's Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction: F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944): A Life Between Art and Politics | p. xvii |
The Pre-Futurist Years (1876-1908) | |
Self-Portrait | p. 5 |
The Foundation of Futurism (1909) | |
The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism | p. 11 |
Futurism: An Interview with Mr. Marinetti in Comoedia | p. 18 |
Second Futurist Proclamation: Let's Kill Off the Moonlight | p. 22 |
Preface to Mafarka the Futurist | p. 32 |
We Renounce Our Symbolist Masters, the Last of All Lovers of the Moonlight | p. 43 |
The Futurist Political Program (1909-13) | |
First Futurist Political Manifesto | p. 49 |
Our Common Enemies | p. 51 |
War, the Sole Cleanser of the World | p. 53 |
Against Sentimentalized Love and Parliamentarianism | p. 55 |
The Necessity and Beauty of Violence | p. 60 |
Second Futurist Political Manifesto | p. 73 |
Third Futurist Political Manifesto | p. 75 |
The Futurist Combat in the Artistic Arena (1910-15) | |
Against Academic Teachers | p. 81 |
Extended Man and the Kingdom of the Machine | p. 85 |
Lecture to the English on Futurism | p. 89 |
The Futurist Manifesto Against English Art | p. 94 |
Futurist Proclamation to the Spaniards | p. 97 |
An Open Letter to the Futurist Mac Delmarle | p. 104 |
Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature | p. 107 |
Destruction of Syntax-Untrammeled Imagination-Words-in-Freedom | p. 120 |
Down with the Tango and Parsifal! | p. 132 |
Geometrical and Mechanical Splendor and Sensitivity Toward Numbers | p. 135 |
On the Subject of Futurism: An Interview with La diana | p. 143 |
Birth of a Futurist Theater (1910-17) | |
Futurism's First Battles | p. 151 |
The Battles of Trieste | p. 158 |
The Battles of Venice | p. 165 |
The Battles of Rome | p. 170 |
The Battle of Florence | p. 175 |
The Exploiters of Futurism | p. 178 |
Manifesto of Futurist Playwrights: The Pleasures of Being Booed | p. 181 |
The Variety Theater | p. 185 |
Dynamic, Multichanneled Recitation | p. 193 |
A Futurist Theater of Essential Brevity | p. 200 |
Futurist Dance | p. 208 |
Futurism and the Great War (1911-17) | |
Electric War: A Futurist Visionary Hypothesis | p. 221 |
The Futurists, the First Interventionists | p. 226 |
In This Futurist Year | p. 231 |
The Meaning of War for Futurism: Interview with L'avvenire | p. 238 |
Futurism and the Great War | p. 245 |
Futurist Art During the First World War (1916) | |
Birth of a Futurist Aesthetic | p. 249 |
The New Ethical Religion of Speed | p. 253 |
The Futurist Cinema | p. 260 |
Some Parts of the Film Futurist Life | p. 266 |
The Postwar Political Battle (1918-23) | |
Manifesto of the Futurist Political Party | p. 271 |
An Artistic Movement Creates a Political Party | p. 277 |
Branches of the Futurist Political Party, the Arditi, and the Legionnaires of Fiume | p. 283 |
A Meeting with the Duce | p. 285 |
The Founding of the Fasci di Combattimento | p. 287 |
Fascism and the Milan Speech | p. 289 |
The Battle of Via Mercanti | p. 292 |
Old Ideas That Go Hand in Glove but Need to Be Separated | p. 297 |
Futurist Democracy | p. 300 |
The Proletariat of Talented People | p. 304 |
Against Marriage | p. 309 |
Synthesis of Marx's Thought | p. 313 |
Synthesis of Mazzini's Thought on Property and Its Transformation | p. 315 |
Technocratic Government Without Parliament or Senate, but with a Board of Initiatives | p. 317 |
Futurist Patriotism | p. 321 |
Against the Papacy and the Catholic Mentality, Repositories of Every Kind of Traditionalism | p. 323 |
Speech in Parliament | p. 328 |
Address to the Fascist Congress of Florence | p. 330 |
Beyond Communism | p. 339 |
To Every Man, a New Task Every Day!: Inequality and the Artocracy | p. 352 |
Artistic Rights Defended by the Italian Futurists | p. 357 |
The Return to the Artistic Domain (1920-33) | |
What Is Futurism?: Elementary Lessons | p. 367 |
Tactilism: A Futurist Manifesto | p. 370 |
Tactilism: Toward the Discovery of New Senses | p. 377 |
The Theater of Surprises | p. 383 |
Memorandum on Stage Presence and the Style of Theater | p. 386 |
The Abstract Antipsychological Theater of Pure Elements and the Tactile Theater | p. 388 |
Futurist Photography | p. 392 |
Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine | p. 394 |
Total Theater: Its Architecture and Technology | p. 400 |
A Futurist Theater of the Skies Enhanced by Radio and Television | p. 408 |
The Radio | p. 410 |
Manuscript Version of Document 11: The Necessity and Beauty of Violence | p. 415 |
Notes | p. 423 |
Bibliography | p. 511 |
Name Index | p. 513 |
Subject Index | p. 523 |
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