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[Underscore and VO with slowly moving lights]
The future is behind us.
Art for life and even more—life for art!
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We exclaim: the whole brilliant style of modern times—our trousers, jackets, shoes, trolleys, cars, airplanes, railways, grandiose steamships—is fascinating, is a great epoch.
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More than anything else, we value intensity of feeling and its great sense of uplifting.
A spark of the spirit lives in us, it is connected with all spirit. It is drawn to other, similar sparks. This is the urge to creation
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We wish to leave deep footprints behind us
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He who claims to look to the future, believing in a linear development of time is completely blind.
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The future is behind us.
-[ Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larinov - Rayonist Manifesto 1926 ]
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[Underscore and VO with slowly moving lights:]
I belong to those manifold Existences
Once known, or once suspected,
That exist no more for man.
Once known, or once suspected,
That exist no more for man.
[pause]
Was it not well to flee
Into the boundless realms of legend
Lest man should bridle me?
[pause]
Sometimes I am glimpsed by poets
Whose eyes have not been blinded
By the hell-bright lamps of cities,
Who have not sent their souls
To be devoured by robot minotaurs
In the infamous Labyrinths of steel and mortar.
Whose eyes have not been blinded
By the hell-bright lamps of cities,
Who have not sent their souls
To be devoured by robot minotaurs
In the infamous Labyrinths of steel and mortar.
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I know the freedom of fantastic things,
Ranging in fantasy.
I leap and bound and run
Below another sun.
Ranging in fantasy.
I leap and bound and run
Below another sun.
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Was it not well to flee
Long, long ago, lest man should bridle me?
[The Centaur - Clark Ashton Smith ]
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In automation theory, a “centaur” is a person who is assisted by a machine. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.
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A reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person in service to an uncaring machine.
[Cory Doctorow]
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[Underscore and VO with slowly moving lights:]
Your hooves drawn together underbelly
shoulders in mud your mane
of wist and soil deporting all the horse of you
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your longhaired neck
eyes jaw yes and ears
unforgiveably human on such a creature
unforgiveably what you are
deposited in the grit-kicked field of a champion
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tender neck and nostrils teacher water-lily suction-spot
what you were marvelous we could not stand
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Night drops an awaited storm
driving in to wreck your path
Foam on your hide like flowers
where you fell or fall desire
[Adrienne Rich- the centaur]
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[Repeat on loop all day.]
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