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Dear Betty: Run fast, bite hard! (a theoretical framework for the exhibition, part 2)

Dear Betty: Run fast, bite hard! (a theoretical framework for the exhibition, part 2)

2. Run Fast, Bite Hard / From burning wheels to techno-animism In the warmonger fanatic ideology proclaimed by the “Manifesto of Futurism”, the contempt for woman was the perfect metaphor for a dichotomous view of the world, in which the young, mechanized male body of the violent warrior was erected against anything feminized: soft, limply […]

| 13 maggio 2016
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Dear Betty: Run fast, bite hard! (a theoretical framework for the exhibition, part 1)

Dear Betty: Run fast, bite hard! (a theoretical framework for the exhibition, part 1)

Dear Betty: Run Fast Bite Hard![1] Introduction The Wikipedia page “Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL”[2] seems like the literal, well-organized reply to the sentence “We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind”[3] shout with rough onrush in the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. Standing on the edge of global war, while technological […]

| 13 maggio 2016
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