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    "pk": 40808,
    "title": "Futurism's Fish Tanks: Rethinking the Human in Marinetti and Bontempelli",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Although separated by a span of nearly twenty years, both F.T. Marinetti’s \nMafarka le futuriste \n(1909) and Massimo Bontempelli’s \nMinnie la candida\n (1928) investigate the ontological parameters of humanness through comparison and confrontation with the nonhuman animal, and, in particular, with fish. This article takes up this shared trope of the fish to examine how both authors position themselves with regards to the Futurist movement’s fervent interest in mankind’s relationship to technology and the natural world. While in his mythopoeic novel on the origins of Futurism, Marinetti utilizes Mafarka’s crystal aquarium to suggest a prepotent fusion of nature and technology through which the dangers posed by the natural world are either excised or contained through the mediation of technology, the fish tank of Bontempelli’s play is used to portray technology’s indiscriminate intrusions on the natural world and on that world’s bodies, both human and nonhuman. By looking at how both Marinetti and Bontempelli employ the nonhuman animal to remake and unmake the human, through the characters of the superhuman Mafarka and the innocent and doomed Minnie, respectively, this article sheds light on the ecological and ontological questions raised by Futurism’s investigation into the human against a backdrop of rapid technological advancement.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Futurism, animal, F.T. Marinetti, Massimo Bontempelli, theater"
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    ],
    "section": "Nonhuman Hybridities",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79f4b9n3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Corie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Marshall",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-11-22T07:13:11+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2019-11-22T07:13:11+05:30",
    "date_published": "2020-12-25T01:18:05+05:30",
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