Anarchists in the Academy

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Publication Year:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781772124057

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.

Case Studies

Jim Andrews

Christian Bök

Mez Breeze

John Cage

Andy Campbell

Robert Duncan

Kenneth Goldsmith

Susan Howe

Jackson Mac Low

Erín Moure [Erin Mouré]

Harryette Mullen

bpNichol

Vanessa Place

Juliana Spahr

Brian Kim Stefans

W. Mark Sutherland

Darren Wershler