Objecthood, Flat Form, Political Formalism: OOO and Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry
This is a largely theoretical essay that, in conversation with Graham Harman’s energetic view of objects and Ben Lerner’s idiosyncratic theory of poetry, articulates the basic tenets of a “flat aesthetics” and then moves on to tease out this aesthetics’ ramifications in terms of form, reading thereo...
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| Language: | English |
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory |
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| Online Access: | https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/179/objecthood-flat-form-political-formalism-ooo-and-ben-lerners-hatred-of-poetry |