Introduction
-Historiography of Political Futurism
-Roots of Marinetti’s Politics
-An Overview of the Book
Chapter 1: From the Foundation to the Crisis of Caporetto,
1909–1918
-The Foundation and Early Politics
- The Libyan War and the Nationalization of Marinetti’s
Politics
- Interventionism and War: Nationalist Apotheosis and the
Re-emergence of Radicalism in Marinetti’s Politics
- The Manifesto of the Futurist Political Party
Chapter 2: Futurist Politics in Action, Summer 1918–May 1920
-Political Futurism Formalized
-Fascism, Disillusionment, and the D’Annunzian Alternative
-The Fall Political Campaign and the Abandonment of Fascism
Chapter 3: The Return to Fascism, 1920–1925
-Marinetti: Isolated
-Marinetti: Dicianovista
Chapter 4: Building the Dictatorship, 1925–1929
-Marinetti and the Dictatorship
-Battling Right-Wing Fascism
-Marinetti Accademico: The Loyal Radical
Chapter 5: Working Towards the Duce, 1929–1937
-Working Towards the Duce: Futurist Initiatives in the Thirties
-The Ethiopian War
Chapter 6: Isolation and Impotence, 1930–1939
-The Perils of Being “Too Fascist”
-The Consequences of “Not Being Fascist Enough”
Chapter 7: Living and Dying with the Regime: Marinetti in World War
Two, 1939–1944
-Marinetti in War
-Marinetti at the End: Salò
Conclusion
Ernest Ialongo is associate professor of history at Hostos Community College, CUNY.
Scholars of Futurism, Fascism, twentieth-century Italian history
and culture, and political theory will find this book interesting
and thought-provoking. Drawing from a number of published and
unpublished sources, Ialongo manages to give a limpid and
unapologetic analysis of Marinetti’s political activity and of his
links to Fascism, at times also exploring its darker and less
comfortable sides. The constant dialogue between radicalism and
nationalism is not just the underlying concept of the book, but the
key that allows the author to shed light on Marinetti’s political
experience from a new perspective.
*The European Legacy – Toward New Paradigms*
Scholars of cultural studies, Italian studies, Futurism, and
political theory will find this book and Ialongo’s methodology both
illuminating and refreshing. The strength of this study is in its
careful detailing of Marinetti’s role in the political realm....
Through his discussions of Marinetti’s writings, propagandist
speeches, wartime efforts, and international travels, Ialongo
offers a new perspective on how Marinetti continued to support the
Future of Italy above all else.
*Forum Italicum*
Ernest Ialongo’s monograph on F.T. Marinetti addresses a
fundamental question: how did the creator of a transformative art
movement in the early twentieth-century become a leading figure in
the Italian Fascist Regime, whose commitment was such that he
remained loyal to the fascist cause until his death? In a
carefully orchestrated argument, Ialongo masterfully addresses this
question by considering the full complexity of Marinetti’s
ideological formation.
*Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Duke
University*
Ernest Ialongo gives us, for the first time, a comprehensive and
unapologetic analysis of F. T. Marinetti’s
politics. Challenging the tendency to unnaturally separate art
and politics, Ialongo deftly and with great complexity
presents Marinetti’s and the Futurist movement he led's
thirty-five-year struggle to combine radicalism, bellicose and
elitist nationalism, and defense of individual liberties. At a time
when the art of Futurism finds a great following, Ialongo provides
an essential service in reminding us of the movement's deep
commitment to radical, but anti-democratic, nationalist, and
Fascist politics.
*Marla Stone, professor of history, Occidental College*
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