Editor’s Foreword Günter Berghaus: Futurism and the Technological Imagination Poised between Machine Cult and Machine Angst Domenico Pietropaolo: Science and the Aesthetics of Geometric Splendour in Italian Futurism Serge Milan: The ‘Futurist Sensibility’: An Anti-philosophy for the Age of Technology Roger Griffin: The Multiplication of Man: Futurism’s Technolatry Viewed Through the Lens of Modernism Vera Castiglione: A Futurist before Futurism: Émile Verhaeren and the Technological Epic Patrizia Veroli: Loie Fuller’s Serpentine Dance and Futurism: Electricity, Technological Imagination and the Myth of the Machine Maria Elena Versari: Futurist Machine Art, Constructivism and the Modernity of Mechanization Gerardo Regnani: Futurism and Photography: Between Scientific Inquiry and Aesthetic Imagination Wanda Strauven: Futurist Poetics and the Cinematic Imagination: Marinetti’s Cinema without Films Margaret Fisher: Futurism and Radio Matteo D'Ambrosio: From Words-in-Freedom to Electronic Literature: Futurism and the Neo-Avantgarde Michelangelo Sabatino: Tabula rasa or Hybridity? Primitivism and the Vernacular in Futurist and Rationalist Architecture Pierpaolo Antonello: Beyond Futurism: Bruno Munari’s Useless Machines Marja Härmänmaa: Futurism and Nature: The Death of the Great Pan? Illustrations Abstracts Notes on Contributors Index