Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude
By (Author) Joel Nickels
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
12th September 2012
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Philosophy
811.509
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 36mm
Description
The Poetry of the Possible challenges the conventional image of modernism as a socially phobic formation, arguing that modernism's abstractions and difficulties are ways of imagining unrealized powers of collective self-organization. Establishing a conceptual continuum between modernism and contemporary theorists such as Paulo Virno, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou, Joel Nickels rediscovers modernism's attempts to document the creative potenza of the multitude.
Author Bio
Joel Nickels is assistant professor of English at the University of Miami.
