Editing Futurism (section)

==The legacy of Futurism==
[[Image:Blast2.jpg|thumb|The cover of the last edition of ''[[BLAST (magazine)|BLAST]]'', the [[literary magazine]] of the British [[Vorticist]] movement, a movement heavily influenced by futurism.]]

Futurism influenced many other twentieth century art movements, including [[Art Deco]],  [[Vorticism]], [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivism]], [[Surrealism]] and [[Dada]]. Futurism as a coherent and organized artistic movement is now regarded as extinct, having died out in 1944 with the death of its leader Marinetti, and Futurism was, like [[science fiction]], in part overtaken by 'the future'. 

Nonetheless the ideals of futurism remain as significant components of modern [[Western culture]]; the emphasis on youth, speed, power and technology finding expression in much of modern commercial cinema and culture. [[Ridley Scott]] consciously evoked the designs of [[Antonio Sant'Elia|Sant'Elia]] in ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Echoes of Marinetti's thought, especially his "dreamt-of metallization of the human body", are still strongly prevalent in Japanese culture, and surface in [[manga]]/[[anime]] and the works of artists such as [[Shinya Tsukamoto]], director of the "''Tetsuo''" (lit. "Ironman") films; Marinetti's legacy is also obvious in philosophical ingredients of [[transhumanism]], especially in Europe. Futurism has produced several reactions, including the literary genre of [[cyberpunk]] — in which technology was often treated with a critical eye — whilst artists who came to prominence during the first flush of the [[Internet]], such as  [[Stelarc]] and [[Mariko Mori]], produce work which comments on futurist ideals.

A revival of sorts of the Futurist movement began in 1988 with the creation of the [[Neo-Futurism|Neo-Futurist]] style of theatre in Chicago, which utilizes Futurism's focus on speed and brevity to create a new form of immediate theatre. Currently, there are active Neo-Futurist troupes in [[Chicago]], [[New York City|New York]], and [[Montreal]].

Another revival in the San Francisco area, perhaps best described as [[Post-Futurist]], centers around the band [[Sleepytime Gorilla Museum]], who took their name from a (possibly fictitious) Futurist press organization (described by founder John Kane as "the fastest museum alive") dating back to 1916.  SGM's lyrics and (very in-depth) liner notes routinely quote and reference Marinetti and ''The Futurist Manifesto'', and juxtapose them with opposing views such as those presented in [[Industrial Society and Its Future]] (also known as the [[Unabomber]] Manifesto, attributed to [[Theodore Kaczynski]]).