Blasting Publications: The Books of Futurism (1909-1920)

Futurism also had the merit of capturing one factor of modern life: technology as the second nature of humankind. In the years 1909-1910, Marinetti elaborated in the manifestoes and in his novel Mafarka the Futurist the ineluctably invasive presence of the machine in everyday life to an extent that would condition and determine the modern life that we still live.