Joan retallack born october, 1941 is an american poet, critic, biographer, and multidisciplinary scholar. Cage muses on words art music 1996, afterrimages 1995, and errata 5uite 1993, among other books. The purpose of joan retallacks the poethical wager is to develop an aesthetics of. Buy the poethical wager book online at best prices in india on. Aristotles definition of happiness, epicuruss swerve into unpredictable possibility, montaigne. Joan retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique postutopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in todays chaotic world. Procedural elegies western civ contd roof books an artforum best book of 2010. Joan retallack has 16 books on goodreads with 545 ratings. She is also the author of afterrimages and eratta 5uite. The poethical wager is a book of twelve essays plus a substantial. In this very coherent collection of essays, retallack goes a long way toward constructing meaning out of the restlessness and anxiety that characterize postmodern art. In these highly inventive essays, joan retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique postutopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in todays chaotic world. For the purposes of rethinking new models for reading medieval texts, i am especially inspired by the poet joan retallack s thinking on the poetics of the swerve as a constructive preoccupation with. September 11, 2001, was a paradigmatic swerve, wrenching a parochial us into a new world of risks without borders.
Macarthur professor of humanities at bard college where she teaches courses in poetics, poethics, and experimental traditions in the arts. Much like deleuze and guattaris concept of minor literature, pierre joriss deleuzeinspired nomad poetics, or joan retallack s poethics of the swerve, a literature that is marginalized in this sense is not one that is forced into a position of powerlessness but one that merely makes a slight difference, leaves a nearly imperceptible. At the beginning of her astounding new book, joan retallack posts a warning from immanuel kant against arguing directly from the logical possibility of concepts to the real possibility of things. An afternoon of thought experiments and a procedural performance game. Litmus press is a program of ether sea projects, inc. Author of eight books of poetrymost recently procedural elegies western civ contd, an artforum best book of 2010and numerous critical studies. Books by joan retallack author of the poethical wager. Epicuruss swerve into unpredictable possibility, montaignes essays as an. This remarkable book of her speculative essays is at once a dynamic conceptual art work and an artistically subtle probing of concepts.
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