Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Prologue: The Limits Of Fabrication -- Introduction: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics -- 1. The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology And and Physical Being -- 2. Objectism: Charles Olson's Poetics Of of Physical Being -- 3. Design Science: Geodesic Architecture In in Nanoscale Carbon Chemistry And and Ronald Johnson's Ark -- 4. Surrational Solids, Surrealist Liquids: Crystallography And and Biotechnology In in Materials Science And and Materialist Poetry -- 5. The Scale Of of A a Wound: Nanotechnology And and The the Poetics Of of Real Abstraction In in Shanxing Wang's Mad Science In in Imperial City -- Conclusion: Techne, Poiesis, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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