The Limits of Fabrication
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The Limits of Fabrication

Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

The Limits of Fabrication

Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

About this book

Poetry, or poi?sis, 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, investigating concepts and ideologies of form at stake in new approaches to material construction. Tracing the direct pertinence of fields crucial to the new materials science (nanotechnology, biotechnology, crystallography, and geodesic design) in the work of Shanxing Wang, Caroline Bergvall, Christian Bök, and Ronald Johnson back to the midcentury development of Charles Olson's "objectist" poetics, Nathan Brown carves out a tradition of constructivist, nonorganic poetics that has developed in conversation with science and engineering.While proposing a new approach to the relation of techn? (craft, skill) and poi?sis (making, forming), this book also intervenes in philosophical debates concerning the concept of the object, the distinction between organic and inorganic matter, theories of self-organization, and the relation between "design" and "nature." Engaging with Heidegger, Agamben, Whitehead, Stiegler, and Nancy, Brown shows that materials science and materialist poetics offer crucial resources for thinking through the direction of contemporary materialist philosophy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Prologue: Limits
  8. Introduction: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
  9. 1.The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology and Physical Being
  10. 2.Objectism: Charles Olson’s Poetics of Physical Being
  11. 3.Design Science: Geodesic Architecture in Nanoscale Carbon Chemistry and Ronald Johnson’s ARK
  12. 4.Surrational Solids, Surrealist Liquids: Crystallography and Biotechnology in Materials Science and Materialist Poetry
  13. 5.The Scale of a Wound: Nanotechnology and the Poetics of Real Abstraction in Shanxing Wang’s Mad Science in Imperial City
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index