Queer Theory & Futurism

[Richard Fiero]

Monte Davis wrote:
>Mark Kohut sez:
>
> > you will recall that marinetti's futurism is savaged big time in AtD...
>
>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 Kentish, wind-tunnel Nazi aesthetic:
>
>"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 . . . .

The Dadas considered surrealism and futurism to 
be fascist tendencies.  This certainly seems so 
with the transhumanists, posthumans, cyborgs and certainly with Marianetti.
As the passage continues, we get another sighting of Maxwell's Demon:
"It’s control. All these things arise from one 
difficulty: control. For the first
time it was inside, do you see. The control is 
put inside. No more need to suffer
passively under ‘outside forces’--to veer into any wind. As if. . .
"A market needed no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could
create itself--its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control
inside was ratifying what de facto had happened--that you had dispensed with
God. But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion
of control. That A could do B. But that was false. Completely. No one can do.
Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be
inseparable. . . ."
"More Ouspenskian nonsense," whispers a lady brushing by on the arm
of a dock worker.