From “futurization” to “No Future”. Futurism and the punk movement as culture suicide

Abstract

The article focuses on comparing two distant phenomena in Polish culture: futurism and the punk movement. Formal similarities at first glance may not be striking, but the sense of the “punk” movement largely places it as the inheritor of a kind of anti-culture, created by the futuristic movement and aimed at the economic and cultural establishment. The article presents key features of futurism and punk culture: negation of tradition, aesthetic and moral anarchy, ideology of youth, radicalism and ostentation in activities. As a result, both phenomena turn out to be a manifestation of youth non-conformism caused by a specific social situation.