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by api 2042 days ago
There are other much more interesting futurist-type movements, like:

Russian Cosmism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism

The Bauhaus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus (not sure if the Bauhaus is "futurism" but I sort of feel like it fits under that umbrella)

Timothy Leary's Futurism: https://www.futureconscience.com/smi2le-the-futurism-of-timo...

The Whole Earth Catalog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

There was a whole lot of futurism in the 1960s psychedelic-era counterculture. It was not all "back to the land" luddite stuff. In fact I associate that stuff more with the 1970s and the New Age movement that came later. Of course then there's eco-futurism that actually blends back to the land tropes with high-tech futurist tropes, which can get really interesting too.

I don't like Italian futurism at all, though it did create a bit of interesting aesthetic work. It's a very nihilistic fascist sort of futurism. I've seen an echo of it in the nihilistic accelerationist fascism that's adjacent to the "alt-right" (or whatever it's called this week) movements of the past decade. I get the sense that some of these people advocate fascism because it is awful, because they're angry nihilists who want to burn the world down.