Let's Kill The Moonlight

How do you murder sentimentality, comfortable sensuality, and exhaustion?...How do you kill the moonlight? This week, we turn to F.T. Marinetti’s second manifesto, “Let’s Kill the Moonlight!”, (1909). Split into four sections, Marinetti begins with a defence of Futurism and a call to arms, before launching into a narrative, where the Mad, armed with cars and planes, wage war on Paralysis, Gout, and The Moon. We’ll also take a look at another manifesto, Marinetti’s, “We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters, The Past Lovers Of The Moon”, (from “Le Futurisme”, 1911) to better understand the Futurists’ break with the past, their ideal, Hybrid Human, and their disgust for the moon.