Screen LibraryThe limits of fabrication : materials science, materialist poetics /
"The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and twenty-first century materialist poetics alongside...
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Fordham University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Idiom: Inventing writing theory
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| Summary: |
"The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and twenty-first century materialist poetics alongside recent innovations in materials science and engineering"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780823272990 0823272990 |
| Index Number: | PN1083 |
| CLC: | I052 |
| Call Number: | I052/B879 |
| Contents: | Prologue: limits -- Introduction: materials science, materialist poetics -- The inorganic open: nanotechnology and physical being -- Objectism: Charles Olson's poetics of physical being -- Design science: geodesic architecture in nanoscale carbon chemistry and Ronald Johnson's ARK -- Surrational solids, surrealist liquids: crystallography and biotechnology in materials science and materialist poetry -- The scale of a wound: nanotechnology and the poetics of real abstraction in Shanxing Wang's Mad Science in Imperial City -- Conclusion: technē, poiēsis, fabrication. |