The limits of fabrication : materials science, materialist poetics / Nathan Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Nathan, 1978- author.

Series:

Idiom (Fordham University Press)

Idiom: Inventing writing theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Form (Philosophy).

Architecture in literature.

Materialism in literature.

Literature and science.

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Figures

Prologue: The Limits Of Fabrication

Introduction: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

1. The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology And and Physical Being

2. Objectism: Charles Olson's Poetics Of of Physical Being

3. Design Science: Geodesic Architecture In in Nanoscale Carbon Chemistry And and Ronald Johnson's Ark

4. Surrational Solids, Surrealist Liquids: Crystallography And and Biotechnology In in Materials Science And and Materialist Poetry

5. The Scale Of of A a Wound: Nanotechnology And and The the Poetics Of of Real Abstraction In in Shanxing Wang's Mad Science In in Imperial City

Conclusion: Techne, Poiesis, Fabrication

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823272990

0823272990

OCLC:

950450432