Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismPremature BurialPart of the problem is our training. Most institutions of higher learning prepare their initiants to live and work in nineteenth-century Europe. The protocols for historical scholarship were perfected by the very Germans who drove Nietzsche from the academy. [1] As the arrow of time flies in one direction only, and as it will never, according to Xeno, reach its target, it seems reasonable to use history as a means to new futures. Not what Romanticism was but what it might become is what matters, what we might become by way of its technological reception. [2] Notes1. See Jerome McGann, A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983). 2. As an example, consider Ira Livingston's, The Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1997). Navigation |