Notes and Quotes
Barrett
Watten (beginning on page 335)
Poetics questions the
nature and value of the work of art as it expands the ground of its making into
the context of its production and reception (335).
Literariness is in a
crisis of new meaning due to its expanded cultural ground (336).
It is the possibility of
a univocal/universal literariness that demands an account of poetics as a
specific genre (338).
It is important that
poetics in the modern era entails equally the positivity of a self-focused mode
of organization and the negativity of that which it cannot represent (340).
A paradox emerges where
the material text confronts its limits in the alterity of the reader (342).
Corollaries necessary for
such an analysis: the genre in question really is structured in relation to a
differential field of oppositions, and that this logic of oppositions is
productive of new work (349).
Not-language, not-poetry…
poetics (349).
The author’s first task
in thinking through the question of poetics here has been to disclose a logic
of genre that provides a genealogy of poetics and accounts for the range of its
practice. The second is to extend this logic to forms of art that have emerged
more recently (351).
The interpretive effort,
however relentlessly applied, always fails within an overarching architecture
of machine interface that absorbs not only interpretation but consciousness and
subjectivity into its own orders (364).
We also need to consider
poetics’ negative relation to the object and its dialectical or diacritical
unfolding as well (365).
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