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this work will be cited in text as M.
2. Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinstein, Data
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3. Christiana J. Taylor, Futurism: Politics,
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2.
4. Jane Rye, Futurism (London: Studio
Vista, 1972), 13.
5. Fredrich Kittler, Discourse Networks,
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U. Press, 1990), 29.
6. Heinrich Stephani, Beschribung Meiner
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14. Umbro Apollonio, Ed., Futurist Manifestos,
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in text as F.
15. Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies. Volume
1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History, trans. Stephen Conway, Theory
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(Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1987), 41.
16. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche,
ed. and trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1954), 124.
22. Schreber's autobiography was published in
1903; Freud's case study, "Psychoanalytic Notes Upon an Autobiographical
Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)," was written in
1911.
23. Daniel Paul Schreber, Denkwürdigkeiten
eines Nervenkranken [Memoirs of My Nervous Illness] (Leipzig:
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32. Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises,
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references will be cited in text as AN.
33. F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata, La Radia,
in Wireless Imagination, 266-7.
35. Jacques Attali, Noise: or the Political
Economy of Music, Trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota
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36. Although this idea is not specifically found
in Russolo's aesthetic, it is found in many avant-garde and experimental
musics throughout the twentieth century, including Stockhausen, Cage, Varèse,
and the "punk" and "industrial" movements of the 1970s-90s.
37. See (for starters) James Gleick, Chaos:
Making a New Science (New York: Viking, 1987); Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle
Steingers, Order out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (New
York: Bantam, 1984); and Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature
and Science, ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press,
1991).
45. Robert Michaels, Beiefe eines Hauptmanns
(Berlin, 1916), quoted in Joe H. Kirchberger, The First World War: An
Eyewitness History (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1992), 202.
46. This medical condition has undergone significant
terminological changes over the twentieth century; its most recent incarnation
is "post-traumatic stress disorder."
47. "The Mental Factor in Modern War: Shell
Shock and Nervous Injuries," in The Times History of the War,
vol. 7, part 87 (London: The Times Printing House, 1916), 314.
50. Elmer E. Southard, Shell Shock and Other
Neuropsychiatric Problems: Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-Nine Case
Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 (New York: Arno Press,
1973).
