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The following is a theoretical study of ''BLAST'' magazine conducted through digital means and techniques.  
 
The following is a theoretical study of ''BLAST'' magazine conducted through digital means and techniques.  
 
==Introduction==
 
==Introduction==
''[http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object BLAST]'' was a literary magazine that birthed an artistic and social movement called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticism]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Ezra Pound], the founders of the Vorticist movement, were also effectively the chief authors of the two-issue magazine. ''[http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object BLAST]'' contained, among other piece of literature, an aggressive manifesto by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis  Lewis] "blasting" conventional British art and culture and proclaiming the Vorticist aesthetic: ‘The New Vortex plunges to the heart of the Present – we produce a New Living Abstraction’. Incidentally, World War I broke out roughly one month after the publication of the first issue. The cultural and political tensions that fueled Vorticism were now at a dangerous climax...how would this affect the heart of the movement?
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''[http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object BLAST]'' was a literary magazine that birthed an artistic and social movement called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticism Vorticism]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound Ezra Pound], the founders of the Vorticist movement, were also effectively the chief authors of the two-issue magazine. ''[http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object BLAST]'' contained, among other piece of literature, an aggressive manifesto by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis  Lewis] "blasting" conventional British art and culture and proclaiming the Vorticist aesthetic: ‘The New Vortex plunges to the heart of the Present – we produce a New Living Abstraction’. Incidentally, World War I broke out roughly one month after the publication of the first issue. The cultural and political tensions that fueled Vorticism were now at a dangerous climax...how would this affect the heart of the movement?
  
 
In our exploration of ''[http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object BLAST]'', we chose to examine both the rhetorical and visual aspects of the content and, in doing so, aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the continuation of Vorticism.   
 
In our exploration of ''[http://www.modjourn.org/render.php?id=1143209523824844&view=mjp_object BLAST]'', we chose to examine both the rhetorical and visual aspects of the content and, in doing so, aimed to understand how the outbreak of World War I impacted the continuation of Vorticism.   

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