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

Author/creator Brown, Nathan, 1978-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesIdiom: Inventing writing theory
Contents Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Prologue: The Limits Of Fabrication -- Introduction: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics -- 1. The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology and Physical Being -- 2. Objectism: Charles Olson's Poetics of Physical Being -- 3. Design Science: Geodesic Architecture in Nanoscale Carbon Chemistry and Ronald Johnson's Ark -- 4. Surrational Solids, Surrealist Liquids: Crystallography and Biotechnology in Materials Science and Materialist Poetry -- 5. The Scale of a Wound: Nanotechnology and the Poetics of Real Abstraction in Shanxing Wang's Mad Science in Imperial City -- Conclusion: Techne, Poiesis, Fabrication -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016027583
ISBN9780823272990 (hardback)

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