Surplus Matter

Tom McCarthy will be talking about Futurism at Tate Modern on Saturday 27 June, as part of a day-long symposium (”Futurism and the Avant Garde”) to coincide with their new exhibition:

These Panels are Our Only Models For the Composition of Poetry, or, How Marinetti Taught Me How to Write

Marinetti’s proclamations about literature — what it should and shouldn’t be, the operations that it should attempt and tendencies that it should shun — outline a vision whose scope goes far beyond the boundaries of the middle-brow novel. This talk, by a crossover novelist/artist, asks what characteristics a genuinely Marinettian contemporary literature might have.