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For today’s bonus episode on PPF+ David explores Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto (1909), a short document with a remarkable afterlife. From Vorticism to fascism, from cars to cod liver oil, from the madness of pre-WWI Europe to the craziness of Silicon Valley today: how did one man’s version of the future shape so many futures to come? Was Marinetti a joker or was he serious? Was this a vision for Italy or for the entire world?
Next time: PPF Live: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives
April 19, 2025