Nowoczesne czasy. Programowanie polskiego futuryzmu
Modern Times: Programming Polish Futurism

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a multifaceted interpretation of two of the most important manifestosof Polish futurism written by Bruno Jasieński, published in 1921. The paradoxes andaporias of this program boil down to contradictory conceptualizations of time (history,tradition, progress), accompanied by unsettled affects (from euphoria to melancholy) andattitudes (from radical egalitarianism to lofty elitism). Franczak examines this tanglednetwork of issues in the context of Marxism as the most important emancipatorydiscourse of modernity and in the light of modern avant-garde theory and philosophyof art. The manifestos themselves are treated as traces, textual derivatives of the processof programming art and life.

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