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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVII , n° 1, Giugno 1999 ( Contributi ) pag. 250-274
ON THE THRESHOLD: SPACE AND MODERNITY
IN MARINETTI'S EARLY MANIFESTOES AND TAVOLE PAROLIBERE
LUCA SOMIGLI
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
In the eighth of the famous eleven points which make up the
programmatic section of the first manifesto of Futurism, which appeared, in French, on the front page of Le Figaro of 20 September 1909, the founder of the Futurist movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, wrote: "Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because
we have created eternal, omnipresent speed" (LMM 49)1. This passage is
interesting for a number of reasons. First, it points to the nature of "work in progress" of the Futurist project at the moment of its foundation. It would be difficult to deny that, at this initial stage in its history, Futurism was a movement in search of a poetics: in spite of the injunctive tone which characterizes Marinetti's proclamations, the manifesto has in fact
precious little to say about the actual poetic and artistic practices through which Futurism planned to launch its assault upon the citadel of Western art, limiting itself to cataloguing instead a series of topics appropriate to the spirit of the modern world, from "the beauty of speed" and "war - the world's only hygiene" - to "great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, by riot" and "the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the
modern capitals" (LMM 49-50)2. [...]
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