I just meant that the stupidity of capital f Futurism (burn the paintings, put locomotives in the museums) went underground for a while and then surfaced as the surveillance state. Futurism’s revolutionary ardor has cooled. It sold out just like every other middle-aged movement and settled down. This boring Futurism hasn’t burned the paintings yet, but it’s certainly made everyone very aware that society isn’t about the spirit that gave the paintings rise. Worse than that: not only is society not interested in that spirit, but society now militates against it. The middlebrow gaze of a surveillance camera as spiritual anesthetic.

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