Description:
This book includes conceptual printed works, poem-objects, texts for performance, and computational poetry that shape a posthumanist understanding which is "situated". Part of the material turn, it fashions modes of complex embodiment in relation to the global crises of our moment: environmental, economic and ethical.
Review Quotes:
Contemporary Visual Poetics not only offers an important rethinking of the history of "extended poetics," as its author Fiona Becket names it, but breaks essential new ground across technologies which many critics still feel unsure of how to read. This book provides a vocabulary and a profound understanding of "posthuman" existence played out in the avant-garde poem, mapping new ways that such work is impacting its society and environment. Becket's connection of her core investigation to ecocritical thinking - and therefore our current (we hope not final) emergencies - also makes this intervention timely, even urgent.
--Romana Huk, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA