Ego-Futurism was a
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within
Russian Futurism by
Igor Severyanin and his early followers. Ego-Futurism was born in 1911, when Severyanin published a small brochure titled
Prolog (Ego-Futurism). Severyanin decried excessive objectivity of the
Cubo-Futurists, advocating a more subjective attitude. Although other
Russian Futurists dismissed the Ego-Futurists as puerile and vulgar, Severyanin argued that his advancement of outspoken sensuality, neologisms and ostentatious selfishness qualifies as
futurism. The Ego-Futurists significantly influenced the
Imaginists of the 1920s.