Burroughs Not Marinetti's Futurist Essay

In George Pal’s 1960 film adaptation of H.G. Wells's 1895 novel, The Time Machine, technological advancement is represented as a road of insight into the human condition, uncovering both our strengths and our flaws. Wells’s novel was written during the turn of the century, a time that basked in the futuristic potentiality of technology. As echoed in Alex Goody's book on technology, literature and culture, she cites how revolutionary advancements and discoveries in technology, such as the "electric age" (Goody 7), have greatly impacted science fiction literature. This inspired and fuelled science fiction writers such as Wells himself. Pal's 1960 film adaptation of the novel, also titled The Time Machine, changes the plot to reflect the war and social

Usually, literature reflects the features of contemporary society. One of the reasons is that the writers of the literature necessarily are influenced by the society they live in. In The Time Machine, the writer H. G. Wells showed his own view on late-Victorain societey. In that era, speed of changes in society was fast and many modern society problems strated to arise according to development of technologies. H. G. Wells were also aware of these problems. He especially focused on the class division problems in The Time Machine and proposed future dystopia, rather than utopia.

“What I’d Say to the Martians” by is a wonderful piece of satire written by Jack Handey. Handey uses a ridiculous scenario to bring light to the violence of humans. The story is humorous because of the setting, Mars, to be precise. But underneath all the humor, “What I’d Say to the Martians” is a commentary on the violent nature mankind has towards each other, even when approached peacefully. The tongue-in-cheek language only makes this message humorous instead of condemning, and subsequently, easier for the reader to swallow.

Tension, humor, and foreshadowing are some examples of elements that readers will find in The Martian. In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney is left behind on Mars. Because of a dust storm, Mark's teammates believe that he is dead and left him behind. The Martian is a science fiction book that gives readers an idea of how people might be able to colonize Mars and gives readers an idea of what space is like. The Martian has an author that self-published his book, and who used humor and foreshadowing to keep his readers engaged.

The collection follows the story of people from Earth colonizing Mars as Earth is demolished by a nuclear war and their experience adapting to Mars while witnessing the deterioration of their homeland. The novel was written in the 1950’s, when there was a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Furthermore, there was very little knowledge about planets other than Earth, and there had been many failed

In 1909, former symbolist poet Filippo Marinetti published his subversive Manifesto of Futurism. This avant-garde proposal for literary revolution proved highly influential to the world of visual art in Italy. Marinetti’s call for dynamism and movement of both physical and societal nature triggered a movement which stood proudly for vivacity, energy, and disruption, and reflected the state of politics and industry during its time. In his contribution to the advent of a seismic change in Italian art that included introducing non academic approaches and abstraction Marinetti exemplified the avant-garde art scene of early 20th century Italy.

Over the past decade there has been more thought put into space exploration and on the list when deciding where to travel is Mars. Some people believe Mars has a huge pay off with a chance of finding life, valuable resources, and innovations in farming practices and equipment. Although Mars may appear to be a good investment when it comes to space exploration, it is not; travel to Mars involves many high costs, risks, and lack of public support making the mission nearly impossible to complete. To add onto the numerous other problems is the fact that there is no available technology at this time to conduct a manned mission to Mars.

In a genre whose name ostensibly welcomes innovation—science fiction—resistance towards technology may initially seem counterintuitive. This, however, is where it is essential to delve into the annals of history. Writers, after all, write what they know. In an 1948 essay, George Orwell wrote, “When you are on a sinking ship, your thoughts will be about sinking

In this essay, I will be discussing the two movements ‘Dada’ and ‘Futurism’, with reference to their conceptual contexts and representative plays, there will also be analysis to how these two movements contrast to realism/ naturalism. Links will also be made to the plays, with the use of scholarly sources to back up the argument and then coming to a final conclusion at the end of the essay.

The 20th century is the hall mark of new, airplanes, automobiles, electricity, the whole world was abuzz with the feelings of a new future, it was a modern world now and that required modern art. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti understood this and wrote the Futurist Manifesto, the

There are many stories of science fiction that aim to show what the future may be like. There are few, however, that get it right. “Waldo” by Robert A. Heinlein is one of these stories. In it, a man named Waldo is conflicted and isolated from society, who, by any standard, should be considered crippled. It is through “Waldo” that author Robert A. Heinlein utilizes characterization and conflict to explore the effects of dependence upon technology on the individual and society.

Marinetti’s manifesto which demonstrates an adoration and respect for the Fascist aesthetic come from his belief in the ideology behind it. He finds beauty in art and other representations of characteristically fascist ideals such as violent militaristic nationalism and the use of technology to claim power and superiority. One such representation of an aesthetic attribute Marinetti lists in his manifesto is the automobile that gifts the world “the beauty of speed [using its] great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath” (Marinetti 4). Not only does the artist champion the machine as the key to advancement and improvement of the human race, he also imagines that it possesses violent capabilities. The fascist regime in V for Vendetta share

The human experience can be well characterized by certain parts of the media we create. We reflect what we feel and face in our lives, in what we create, especially in our music and writing. The science fiction we create is especially reflective of these things, because it is often written in a way that explores the human condition as it is and as it may be in the future. These pieces of media do more than demonstrate the ideas of those who create them, they provide us with insight into the state of society at the time they were produced, allowing us to see the themes that are constant over the centuries. One of these themes is the struggle we face between the drive to do what we see as right and the instinct to

FM-2030 was a futurist who broke free of many of the conventional gender, national, religious, and societal norms and traditions of the 20th century. A pioneer ahead of the times, this visionary was an athlete, author, consultant, philosopher, and teacher. Born in 1930, FM was also a forerunner of the transhumanist movement, and has remained a curious cultural personality and progressive societal influence for millennial futurists. Many continue to ask questions about the accuracy and implications of FM's predictions. And the most intriguing question is whether FM is dead or alive today.

“Standing on the world's summit, we launch once more our challenge to the stars!” Published in 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti concluded his highly influential Futurist Manifesto with this emphatic line. But for those who have read Friedrich Nietzsche, this may sound familiar. Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of Nietzsche’s most well-known works, opens with an almost identical image, namely, a man at the peak of a mountain shouting his convictions at sun, whom he refers to as “thou exuberant star.”(Zarathustra, 53). During the perid in which Marinetti wrote the Manifesto, Nietzsche’s works were gaining popularity in Europe, particularly among those who considered themselves “revolutionaries.” Thus is is likely that Marinetti would have read Nietzsche extensively, and we can see evidence of this borne out in the text of the Manifesto. Not just in its philosophy, but also in its style and tone. In a way, the Manifesto reads very similar to Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil in that it conveys both the anger and excitement of the writer. Compare the following excerpts, the former from the Manifesto, the latter taken from Beyond Good and Evil: