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What to Do? Contemporary Poetry and the Theory of Shared Worlds

Author(s): Alina Świeściak
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Poetry, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: new materialism; shared world; antagonism; hegemonic production; utopia; anarchy; ecology of poetry; ethics of sustainability;

Summary/Abstract: Świeściak discusses the work of nine poets mostly of the young(est) generation in the context of theories related to community-based design of change – performative theories conceptualised as an intervention into social practices (Laclau and Mouffe, Deleuze and Guattari, Latour, Haraway, Barad, Stranger, Braidotti). Szczepan Kopyt, Tomasz Bąk, Adam Kaczanowski, Kamila Janiak, Konrad Góra, Kacper Bartczak, Anna Adamowicz, Monika Lubińska (and Andrzej Sosnowski as a point of departure) are presented as having an deep awareness of ecology, gender, economy, society; they are critical of the rules of postmodernity, and they imagine the utopia of a different world and rules different from the Modernist constitution. Świeściak treats their work as a weave of various discursive and material practices that hinge on the smooth reconfiguration of language and materiality.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 156-175
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish