Nowoczesne czasy. Programowanie polskiego futuryzmu.

The article offers amultifaceted interpretation of two of the most important manifestos of Polish futurism written by Bruno Jasieński, published in 1921. The paradoxes and aporias of this program boil down to contradictory conceptualizations of time (history, tradition, progress), accompanied by unsettled affects (from euphoria tomelancholy) and attitudes (from radical egalitarianism to lofty elitism). Franczak examines this tangled network of issues in the context of Marxism as the most important emancipatory discourse of modernity and in the light of modern avant-garde theory and philosophy of art. The manifestos themselves are treated as traces, textual derivatives of the process of programming art and life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]