“Then he kissed it with his bumper”: The Autovehicular Posthumanisms of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and William Carlos Williams

| This article explores and compares the car crash narratives and poems of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and William Carlos Williams, and examines how the violent rupturing of barriers (the borders of the human body, the glass and steel shell of the automobile, and the traditional limitations of human experience and reasoning) offers the radical possibility of transcending and undermining traditionally demarcated borders of the human.