Please read: White, Anthony. (2015). “Italian futurism 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe/Italian futurism 1909-1944,” The Art Bulletin, 97(1), 104-107; Available in the Readings Reserves Folder.   And explore the website: Italian Futurism 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe; An online exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 21-September 1, 2014; Available at: http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism/

   Then discuss:  You can approach this assignment in a few different ways.  You might choose to look through the different pages (Introduction, Themes, Timeline . . . ) and then watch the Video (http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism/video/) or start with the video and then go to the works of art.  After doing this describe some part of this exhibit (I especially like the paintingSpeeding Train by Ivo Pannaggi (1922)) and discuss how it reflects the theme of Technological Fundamentalism from lecture and Misa.

all human societies develop cultures-  that is, patterns of beliefs,values and assumptions that help them explain the world around them, define mutual obligations, and help serve as a shared identity.

One of the first questions that culture raises is much of human behavior is explained by the culture we are born into( family), and much is born in to us as human species. The second question involves diversity.
Based on geography, natural recourses, etc. early civilizations developed their own unique identities. Compare are contrast the societies that arise in mesopotamia, Egypt, and india. How they similar and how were they different? can  a specific culture shape how they express basic emotions, how they function in society, their religious values?