Poetici matematice și emoții în centrifugă: importuri terminologice din științele tari în discursurile poetice (semi)periferice
Iulia Pietraru
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Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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Studii literare
Mathematical Poetics and Emotions in the Centrifuge: Terminological Imports from Hard Sciences in (Semi-)peripheral Poetic Discourses
Abstract: In the texture of current poetic formulae in the Romanian poetic space (alt-lit, digital poetry, digital-realist, digital-scientist, retro-digital, minimalist-biographical poetry, etc.), the experimental-scientific one emerges, marginally, converting a voice imported from the hard sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and so on). Using as methodological support the theory of combined and uneven development, this paper aims to analyze the (semi-)peripheral poetic discourses modulated by terminological imports from the exact sciences and the way in which the affects are systematized in two zones of the world literary system (central vs. semi-peripheral). The hypothesis of departure is that, in contrast to central cultural spaces (USA, Canada, etc.), where there are many techno poetic discourses, academic directions (courses, associations, research projects, journals) and a solid critical system, in the Romanian (semi-peripheral) cultural space, there is a well-defined critical apparatus on mathematical poetics (from the 20th century), but, at the present time, there is a lack of critical research on these collections of poetry, which frame an emerging direction (with the collections of Gabi Eftimie or val chimic). Therefore, we consider that the extreme-contemporary volumes worth analyzing in this sense are Dmitri-INTJ by Dmitri Miticov (OMG Publishing, 2023) and vom trece de Marte dar nu imediat (We Shall Pass Mars but not Immediately) by Șerban Mihalache (Max Blecher Publishing House, 2023), both of them nuancing their dynamics by appealing to centrifuged emotions, to “rationaffects”.
Keywords: experimental poetry, hard sciences, core-semiperipheral discourses, marginal poetics, rationaffects
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