Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- 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 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 11, 2019)
