Research Catalog

Title

Annihilated time : poetry and other politics / Jeff Derksen.

Author

Derksen, Jeff, 1958-

Publication

Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2009.

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Details

Description

303 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• In Annihilated Time, Jeff Derksen offers a clear point of view from which to critique and unsettle contemporary neoliberalism and its slippery redeployments of democratic vocabularies for undemocratic ends.
• By recognizing the range of scalesùlocal, national, and globalùthrough which neoliberalism operates, and the contradictory interactions of the same or related gestures depending on the scale at which one reads, Derksen suggests that it is through a multivalenced poetics of space, movement, and reflexivity that readers and writers resist and thrive. These are smart, thoughtful essays that offer a wide range of opportunities to help the justice-minded to productively refuse or rearticulate rapidly shifting forms of power for more open and liberatory movements.ùLarissa Lai, University of British Columbia, author of Saltfish Girl.
• In this long-awaited collection of essays, Jeff Derksen explores the new pressures placed on poetry, art, and theory by the intensified intimacy between culture and economics in the "long neoliberal moment," with great intelligence and ironic humour. Drawing on live debates and controversies--as opposed to isolated theories or static modelsùin disciplines ranging from Marxist geography to postmodern architecture, Derksen raises the question of what it means to make art in the present moment in a new and exciting way.ùSianne Ngai, University of California at Los Angeles, author of Ugly Feelings.
• Just as Charles Olson turned to geographer Carl Sauer to pry open the field of contemporary poetry and poetics in the previous century, Jeff Derksen here brilliantly relates poetry ("that underachieving commodity") to architecture, and explores the uneven development of contested urban territories in the work of Marxist geographers. Derksen's incisive critiques of the lengthy spectre of neoliberalism that is haunting our globe seek to create not only new readers of poetry but new forms of and spaces for a re-scaled, re-envisioned, and re-invigorated cultural citizenship. Annihilated Time deserves to be read as it was written: boldly and widely.ùMark Nowak, editor of XCP: Cress Cultural Poetics, author of Coal Mountain Elementary --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Arts and globalization
• Poetry > Political aspects
• Arts > Political aspects
• Neoliberalism
• Arts et mondialisation
• Poésie > Aspect politique
• Arts > Aspect politique
• Néo-libéralisme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Poetry Fahrenheit 451: North American Poetry On and Off the Page Since 9/11 -- 2. Rescaling Poetics: Neoliberalism and the Cultural Spatiality of Globalization -- 3. From the "Commodification of Everything" to "Everything Is Being Made 'Cultural' -- 4. Inside/Outside the Language Site: Nation, Avant-Garde, Globalization -- 5. "The Obvious Analogy Is with [Architecture]": Lyn Hejinian's My Life as Poetic Megastructure -- 6. Text and the Site of Writing -- 7. World Trade Center and the Manipulation of Spatial Scales, or Goodbye Liberal Multiculturalism (Again) -- 8. Out of a Bad State: Identity, State, and Neoliberal Globalization -- 9. Unrecognizable Texts: From Multicultural to Antisystemic Writing -- 10. Idea of Cross-Culture -- 11. Poetry and the Other Politics: Neoliberalism and Culture -- 12. As Ideology: Denaturalized Globalization and Articulatory Poetics -- 13. "These Things Form Poems When I Allow It": After John Newlove -- 14. "Your Culture Has Been Designated a Week": Canadian Poetics in the Global Public Arena (with Kit Dobson).

ISBN

• 9780889226128
• 0889226121

OCLC

• 259265917
• SCSB-12086509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library