/lit/ - Literature

>>17717452
Afrofuturism is the cringiest LARP I've ever seen. Actual Futurism developed as an aesthetic expression of the ruthless technological progress of interwar Europe. Afrofuturism are these weird ugly sci-fi doodles like in OP's pic with three eye'd negresses in knock off Fremen suits, fucking marvel black panther fans, and cosplayers in the vein of 'just glue some gears on it and call it steampunk' but with random fake gadgets and wires on pseudo-traditional African clothing. Complete farce and emblematic of the a-historical nature of Black Americans. Whereas Futurism was an aesthetic expression of the people driving forward aeronautical, vehicular and industrial technology, Afrofuturism is pure LARP for a history they never had and a future they couldn't build.

>>16981226
I said Techno-Futurist Fascism, not tyrannical globalist Liberalism

>>16087593
>>16087603
I'm sorry you lack the testosterone to appreciate the beauty of speed, machinery, violence. Perhaps Neo-Gothic Cathedrals would be more your speed.

The basic conclusion of this seems nearly Stoic. One thing I remain a little uncertain of, was whether the Stoics took the cardinal virtues as a divine prerogative, or something of a utilitarian disposition to take.
They had theological/pseudotheological beliefs, but seemed to take it that these greater forces just didn't give a strong fuck about what you felt.

>>10651639
If I remember correctly the first half of The Alternative describes the philosophical roots of Mosley's fascism. He talks about the "Hellenic-Elizabethan" heroism of the common briton and how that lent them the empire, and he goes into how modern democracy stifles that destiny. He talks a bit about the JQ, but his second half is more about his criticisms with the British government.

tl;dr Its seems to promote a mix of NatSoc and Italian Fascism to deal with the political and spiritual crises of post-WW2.

>>10212427
Is anyone here doing law? I hear it's the only option for any kind of writing major, but it is soul crushing isn't it. I can't imagine how it could be significantly more tedious than engineering. I was reading the Federalist papers last night and had a strange moment of appreciation for the English language, I can't remember the specific passage but the writing was both poetic and technical, I had an odd flush of emotion from it . Might just join the air force desu I have no human connection holding me here I just read study and exercise everyday

>War is beautiful because it establishes man’s dominion over the subjugated machinery by means of gas masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, and small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt of metallization of the human body. War is beautiful because it enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine guns. War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the cease fire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the geometrical formation flights, the smoke spirals from burning villages, and many others. . . . Poets and artists of 20 Futurism! . . . remember these principles of an aesthetics of war so that your struggle for a new literature and a new graphic art... maybe illumined by them!

Goddamn man, those fascists were good at writing

>>9087624
LAME, read the Futurist manifesto instead, faggot. Do you even want to blaze through life like a violent motorcar?

>'Let’s break out of the horrible shell of wisdom and throw ourselves like pride-ripened fruit into the wide, contorted mouth of the wind! Let’s give ourselves utterly to the Unknown, not in desperation but only to replenish the deep wells of the Absurd!’

>We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.

>Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work without an aggressive character can be a masterpiece. Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man.

>We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.

>We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.

>Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice.

>>8675553
>anything pre-modern
>fascist
(You)

Futurism is motivating