Queer Theory & Futurism

[Mark Kohut]

Damn good question I say, and damned if I, quick draw no matter what, have an opinion.  

Quick second thought: prolly. After the modernists created into the modernity they, and TRP, hated, and said that....most art after that was compromised by being part of modernity.........???

Which may be why 1) the modernists (and earlier) seem to matter most to TRP
and 2) why some low artforms---mystery novels, cartoons, movies before they were 'films', etc. matter most later to TRP.



--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Phillip Grayson <phillip.grayson at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Phillip Grayson <phillip.grayson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Queer Theory & Futurism
> To: "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net>
> Cc: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 8:44 PM
> Obvious I guess and prolly well explored
> already, but with all the pastiche and such, is there the
> possibility that AtD mocks an artistic deterioration since,
> say, _Ulysses_ along with a cultural one since WWI?
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> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:40 PM,
> Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
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> > you will recall that marinetti's futurism is
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> Indeed it is, and the rush of wind that the Futurists
> loved (re-read the dive-bombing, sport with the flying
> girls) blows straight into hair-straight-back, Rockwell
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> "Roland too became conscious of the wind, as his
> mortality had never allowed him. Discovered it so . . . so
> joyful, that the arrow must veer into it. The wind had been
> blowing all year long, year after year, but Roland had felt
> only the secular wind . . . he means, only his personal
> wind. Yet . . . Selena, the wind, the wind’s everywhere .
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