Hungarofuturista kísértetképzés

Abstract

This essay analyzes some strategies of the political aesthetics of the Hungarian futurist movement (HUF). The HUF attempts to rethink Hungarian national identity in the face of self-colonizing nationalist narratives. Similar to Afrofuturism, this is an exercise in identity poetics that builds on a radical over-identification with a minority identity. The over-identification associated with the Slovenian IRWIN group represents an ironic appropriation of the tools of various extremist ideologies, which in the case of the HUF appears as an absurdist distortion of Hungarian myths and ultra-nationalist rhetoric.