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It oscillates between depressing vertical lines, forming a harmonious electromagnetic field, and rushing diagonal lines, disrupting the field.

Matter is at war with itself - the war that Marinetti glorified in the first Futurist manifesto (1909).

In Those Who Stay, there are parallel lines - a formation or regiment of forceful lines waiting for marching orders, as it were.

The figures that appear through their curtain are intact.

On the other hand, in Those Who Go, the lines are out of control.

They have broken formation, and charge through the crowd of figures (in 1914 this became The Cavalry Charge) destroying them.

Those Who Go is the image of a disintegrating field, Those Who Stay is the image of an integrated field.

As the Futurist riot pictures indicate, the Futurists were as interested in the disintegration of the electromagnetic field of forces as they were in its integration.

Paradoxically, it is the machine that is responsible for both in the States of Mind series, suggesting that the Futurists were more ambivalent about it than they cared to admit in their manifestos.

The locomotive is the center of attention in The Farewells.

With its golden number and "red-hot belly," to use Marinetti’s phrase, it symbolizes the triumph of modern technology.

But it is also responsible for the emotional catastrophe the series pictures.

And the physical catastrophe: Like so many Futurist machines - Boccioni’s bicycle, Carr&a...

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