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evasive history of warfare without any unilinear intention.
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Marinetti claims that such warfare is itself "Futurism
intensif ied" ( 1991 : 131 )--perhaps because (as Deleuze and
Guattari might suggest), war is the su~~lement of a marginal
episteme, occurring wherever a royal science clashes with a
nomad science ( 1987 : 355 ) :
the former, building implements
(which control energy through instrumental tasks); the
latter, building srmaments (which unleash energy through
experirnental risks) .' While Benjamin argues thst , for such
radical warfare, "alienation has reached such a degree that
it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic
pleasure" (242), the very sesthetic that has served what he
vilifies (Fascisrn) has at the same time served what he
endorses (Communism). More hyperbolic than antonyrnic in its
logic, Futurism counteracts the atrocity of capitalist
automation with an even greater atrocity.
Heidegger observes thst the millenary problem of
technology, the danger of the Ge-stell (421, always already
involves an imaginary solution throuah technology: ie.
every problem implies a fatefül paradox, since the solution
to such a problem ie itself a problem of the ~roblem.' The
potential for a transition from danger to safety stems from
the insight of a clinamen, a turning away that is itself an