The New Futurists Declaration
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Lines by Sean Bodley
The New Futurists Declaration
We find glory in the conveniences of the machine. It’s precision and efficiency is something unknown to man. Man who sleeps, man who eats, man is forced to make judgments, to make adjustments, the machine simply works, accomplishes, achieves. This clear mirror is obvious, man is to machine, what animal is to man. There is a shift that must take place. Man must become like machine. In life, in sleep, in art. We, the new futurists exclaim EMBRACE the nature of machine. Accept its rigidity, its simple contours, its efficient action.
We will first make ourselves like a machine through our artwork. It has been known for centuries that mans motives, mans objectives, mans destiny exists first in art. To integrate the machine into man, we must make art the focus of the machine. Art will function. Art will accomplish a mean, not just serve as a petty point of discussion. Art will permeate the minds of the masses, spreading the machine.
Ah but the common man will not see the glory of the machine! What goal worthy of accomplishing has not met resistance! We must embrace the challenge. We must spread the glory of the machine. It will begin in the galleries. The first display, a saw, a clock, its gears keeping time to our coming glory! It will be ridiculed. The resisting forces will exclaim “but your work, it is nothing more than tools, than props, a decadent abstracted statement at best!” What do the masses know! Decadent, abstracted, this is their perception of our meaning! What meaning do we find in art, none in their terms! Our art does not comment upon the human condition. It CHANGES the human condition. Its action destroys the past barriers; it destroys the notion of humanity by every decent standard!
The movement will spread. It must, the utility of our movement will be seen by the pragmatic. It will spark the minds of the next generation, the leading generation! We will seize what is ours, our art will be seen in every avenue of the earth!
New futurists. You must embrace the machine at all costs!
Do you not know the evil we will endure through failure! Man will continue to live, nothing more than a beast! Scavenging on the waste of the land, consuming the products of machine but rejecting machines glorious nature! Come forth my generation, and become, the chosen generation.
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