Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism’s power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on the common. She demonstrates how postanarchism offers a useful theoretical context for poetry that is not explicitly political—specifically for the contemporary experimental poem with its characteristic challenges to subjectivity, representation, authorial power, and conventional constructions of the reader-text relationship. Her case studies of sixteen texts make a bold move toward politicizing readers and imbuing literary theory with an activist praxis—a sharp hope. This is a provocative volume for those interested in contemporary poetics, experimental literatures, and the digital humanities.
Author(s): Dani Spinosa
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 297
Tags: Semiotics, Theory, Literary studies, poetry, poets, Literary Criticism, Postanarchism, Literary theory, Anarchism, Anarchy, Literature
1 Precursors to Digital Writing 1
Jackson Mac Low Is Something Something 3
John Cage Making Excessive Noise 14
Robert Duncan Plagiarizing 25
bpNichol for the Curious Viewer/Reader 35
2 Feminism, Print, Machines 51
Susan Howe Sleeping in the Library 54
Erín Moure’s Name in Quotation Marks 71
Juliana Spahr Prefers Both 84
Harryette Mullen Making Kimchee in a Museum 95
3 Easy Concepts 107
Kenneth Goldsmith Talking to Himself 111
Vanessa Place Without Serifs 124
Christian Bök Obsolesces the Avant-Garde 134
Darren Wershler andor Any Number of Readers 142
4 Digital Interventions 153
Jim Andrews Drifts Apart 156
W. Mark Sutherland Puts the Cedar in Abecedarian 166
Brian Kim Stefans Alphabetizes Dreams 177
Andy Campbell, Mez Breeze, and the Constrict(l)ure of Code 186
