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The Archeofuturist Essential
A Compendium for the Spirit of Progress
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35294001
EAN: 9798187141968
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Zustellung: Di, 13.10.2026
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Beschreibung
"We stand at the edge of the map. The fire we stole from the gods is becoming the engine of our own apotheosis. ". What if the history of human progress is not a slow, peaceful accumulation of reason, but a hidden, heretical struggle against cosmic fatalism. The Archeofuturist Essential: A Compendium for the Spirit of Progress. argues that beneath the surface of civilization runs an unbroken current of Promethean ambition: the recurring human impulse to master nature, challenge fate, and overcome the biological and terrestrial limits of the human condition. Rejecting both static traditionalism and passive techno-utopianism, it traces a Counter-Tradition in which the ancient dreams of stolen fire, self-moving machines, and human immortality become enduring symbols of humanity's drive toward technological and spiritual self-transformation. Rather than treating these visions as isolated myths or inventions, this volume interprets them as recurring archetypes that have shaped the imagination of scientific, philosophical, and political progress across the centuries. Through original essays on Archeofutural thought, extensive introductions to each featured author, and new translations, the book follows the evolution of this Promethean inheritance from antiquity to the modern age. Included are fresh translations and commentaries on:. -. The information-theoretic, anti-entropic cosmic warfare of Zarathustra. 's Gathas. -. Heraclitus. ' Fragments. on the Logos, conflict, and the generative power of creative tension. -. Hero of Alexandria. 's mechanical imagination and the earliest horizons of automation. -. The long-range technical foresight of Roger Bacon. and Francis Bacon. -. Leibniz. 's binary arithmetic, universal calculus, and computational vision of reality. -. The vitalist and volitional philosophies of Percy Bysshe Shelley. and Friedrich Nietzsche. -. Nikolai Fedorov. 's planetary project, Georges Sorel. 's mythic mobilization, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. 's celebration of technological velocity. -. Gabriele D'Annunzio. 's constitutional experiment at Fiume. , where poetry, politics, myth, and technology briefly converged into a living masterwork of statecraft. The volume concludes by bringing this intellectual lineage into dialogue with the twenty-first century. It explores how these earlier visions anticipate contemporary questions surrounding artificial intelligence, technological acceleration, human enhancement, and civilizational transformation. The Archeofuturist Essential. is more than a history of ideas. It is a conceptual toolkit for creators, engineers, philosophers, and visionaries seeking to understand-and participate in-the next stage of human development. The incubation period of History is over. Read this Essential. to rediscover that most Archaic impulse within yourself and equip it with the tools of the Future. The time has come to step toward the horizon where myth, technology, and human destiny converge.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 398