Utopia
David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo, David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo
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Utopia
David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo, David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo
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Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century.
The book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as:
· how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?
· how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?
· how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?
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1 | David Burliuk et al., âFrom A Trap for Judges, 2â, in: Anna Lawton and Herbert Eagle (eds and trans.), Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes, 1912â1928, Ithaca and London 1988, 53â54, here 54. |
2 | Roland Schaer, âUtopia and Twentieth-Century Avant-Gardesâ, in: Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (eds), Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World, New York and Oxford 2000, 278â289, here 279. |
3 | Reinhart Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, trans. Todd Samuel Presner et al., Stanford, CA 2002, 165. |
4 | See: Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1984; Friedrich Schiller, Ăber die Ă€sthetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen, Stuttgart 1965. |
5 | First published in French translation in 1880 as Socialisme utopique et socialisme scientifique. The quotation is from: Frederick Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, trans. Aveling [un-credited], Moscow 1978, 49. |
6 | Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, trans. Rose Strunsky, London 1925, 14. |
7 | Tyrus Miller, Modernism and the Frankfurt School, Edinburgh 2014, 21. |
8 | Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, eds Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, Minneapolis 1997, 32. |
9 | Theodor W. Adorno, âOn Lyric Poetry and Societyâ, in Notes to Literature, vol. 1, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, New York 1991, 37â54, here 40. |
10 | Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, London and New York 2005, 2. |
11 | Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, New York 1986, 172â173. |
12 | Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, New York 1995, 135. |
13 | Quoted in: David Pinder, Visions of the City: Utopianism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism, Edinburgh 2005, 218. |
14 | Quoted in: George M. Young, The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers, Oxford 2012, 19. |
15 | Christina Lodder, âSearching for Utopiaâ, in: Christopher Wilk (ed.), Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914â1939, London 2006, 23â40, here 31. |
16 | On the notion of pseudo-science and on the links between esotericism, Enlightenment and modern science, see for example: Dirk Rupnow et al. (eds), Pseudowissenschaft. Konzeptionen von Nichtwissenschaftlichkeit in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main 2008; Monika Neugebauer-Wölk, Renko Geffarth and Markus Meumann (eds), AufklÀrung und Esoterik. Wege in die Moderne, Berlin and Boston 2013. |
17 | Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E.B. Ashton, London and New York 1973, 322. |
18 | Situationist International, âQuestionnaireâ, in: Ken Knabb (ed. and trans.), Situationist In.ternational Anthology, Berkeley 2006, 178â183, here 180. Originally published in: Internationale Situationniste, 1964, no. 9. |
19 | Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre and the Language of Rupture, Chicago 1986, 80â115. |
20 | Ricciotto Canudo, âCerebrist Artâ, trans. Emily Haves, in: Alex Danchev (ed.), 100 Artistsâ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists, London 2011, 67â70, here 67. Original publication: âLâArt CĂ©rĂ©bristeâ, Le Figaro, 9 February 1914, 1â2. |
21 | Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes, Princeton 2006, 71. |
22 | Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution, 79. |
23 | F.T. Marinetti, âThe Foundation and Manifesto of Futurismâ [1909], trans. Doug Thompson, in: Danchev (ed.), 100 Artistsâ Manifestos, 1â8, here 6. |
24 | Marinetti, âThe Foundation and Manifesto of Futurismâ, 7. |
25 | Marjorie Perloff, Poetic License, Evanston 1990, 34. |
26 | Natalia Goncharova, âLetter to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1914)â, in: John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt (eds), Amazons of the Avant-Garde, New York 1999, 314. |
27 | Paul Mann, Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde, Minneapolis 1991, 11. |
28 | Marinetti, âThe Foundation and Manifesto of Futurismâ, 7. |
29 | Marinetti, âThe Foundation and Manifesto of Futurismâ, 7. |
30 | AndrĂ© Breton, âManifesto of Surrealism (1924)â, in: Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor 2010, 3â47, here 47. |
31 | Breton, âManifesto of Surrealismâ, 14. |
32 | Breton, âManifesto of Surrealismâ, 5, 9. |
33 | I have written more extensively on the connections between French and English Romanti-cisms and Surrealisms in: âThe Peculiar Rom... |