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The Limits of Fabrication : Materials Science, Materialist Poetics /

Poetry, or poiesis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making in science and engineering? The Limits of Fabrication takes up this question in the context of recent developments in nanoscale materials science, inve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Nathan, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Idiom (Fordham University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : limits
  • 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 : technē, poiēsis, fabrication.