| Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal Contributor(s): Dowker, David (Author), Stewart, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1927040620 ISBN-13: 9781927040621 Publisher: Book*hug Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 Click for more in this series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2012545598 |
| Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.8" W x 7.8" L (0.25 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
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| Publisher Description: Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, David Dowker and Christine Stewart have created a series of linguistic interjections that run from the allegorical barricades of the baroque to the topological confound of the modern, incorporating (for example) Medusa and the Sphinx, aestivating snails and the alchemy of bees. Lush and extravagant, this is writing tuned in to the terrestrial spectacle. Analogy 1/2 this word held in disrepute by the philosophers of the Enlightenment for its lack of rigor and reliability 1/2 ensconced, like metaphor, in the vast territory of that which is improper, now revealed itself to be, for Baudelaire, the only key with which to access that knowledge which sheds a magical and supernatural light on the natural obscurity of things. 1/2 Roberto Calasso, trans. Alastair McEwen, La Folie Baudelaire |
Contributor Bio(s): Dowker, David: - David Dowker was born in Kingston, Ontario but has lived most of his life in Toronto. He was the editor of The Alterran Poetry Assemblage, and his first book, Machine Language, was published in 2010. Christine Stewart lives on the North Saskatchewan River. She works at the University of Alberta and the Learning Centre in downtown Edmonton. Publications include from Taxonomy, Pessoa's July: or the months of astonishments and The Trees of Periphery. The Humanist is forthcoming from Red Nettle Press. |
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