It's always been political

etc-hosts 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mussolini and other Italian inventors-of-Fascism figures were closely allied with the Futurism movement and Marinetti.

https://www.booksontrial.com/mussolini-and-marinetti-a-timel...

api 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s Italian futurism, which was a specific movement. I think the term was being used more broadly here.

Go find some Soviet space art, or mid century American “space age” stuff, or less dark forms of cyberpunk / cyber culture from the 80s and 90s. None of that is fascist yet all of it is popularly called “futurism.” I’ve even seen the term associated with solarpunk.

As popularly used it means more or less the idea of trying to use human intellect to build or create something fundamentally new, or roughly that. It’s not a precise term more of a vibe.

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mandolingual 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Mid century American and Soviet space art had transparent political purpose, as does solarpunk. Futurism is rarely if ever just "it's the future, and that's neat!". It comes with the inherently political baggage of "We got from where we are to the glorious future, by way of (ideology)". Star Trek is a great example of this.

	▲	api 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That could be said about everything including things usually not associated with futurism like romanticism. Everything carries at least a little political baggage. I was responding to what seemed like the implication that futurism was fascist.