reporting from the outskirts of the Empire
The Futurist Manifesto was first published in 1909. It was written by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a celebration of speed, youth, violence and technology. It was also a declaration … Continue reading Futurist rioting, conceptualism and sensuality
The Spanish War of Succession was a pan-European conflict ignited by the death of Charles II in 1700. Charles II was the last of the Spanish Habsburgs, a product of … Continue reading From based to cringe: Tabarnia and badly waged memetic guerrilla
The word guerrilla means “small war” in Spanish. It was first used with its current connotations in the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814). The conflict is called the Peninsular War … Continue reading The deconstruction of conventional warfare and cultural banditry
