I really enjoy Monika Bielskyte’s ideas and futurist critiques. They’re nuanced, well researched, and contain a pragmatic depth to our current path. She goes long on “THE FUTURISM YOU WERE SOLD WAS A WEAPON“, deconstructing a vision for the future that isn’t healthy.
Futurism did not emerge from neutral curiosity about tomorrow. It came wrapped in the aesthetics of domination: speed prized above reflection, homogeneity above plurality, command above reciprocity. Inside that grammar, the body is an obstacle, connection reads as weakness, dependence as a humiliation, and the living world merely as raw material or enemy terrain. The techno-centric futurist tradition has spent a century projecting a dead mechanical fantasy as an account of life.