Charles Olson and the Quest for a Quantum Poetics

Douglas Duhaime, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  Download PDF Version Abstract This paper investigates the ways the American poet Charles Olson helped twentieth-century writers create a “quantum poetics” that could reflect the discoveries of modern relativity...

Poetry and Technology in Marinetti’s Futurist Manifestos

Daniela Petro?el, University of Suceava, Romania  Download PDF Version Abstract The Avant-garde literary movements accomplished a wide combination of artistic and scientific principles, exploiting aesthetically the aspects of technological world. Thus, the Futurist...

The Forking Paths of Open Your Eyes and Vanilla Sky

Carolina Ferrer, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada Download PDF Version Abstract In March 1992, researchers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean inaugurated in Paris the conference Épistémocritique et Cognition, thus giving official birth to...

A Feminist Aesthetics of Nature

Tegan Zimmerman, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada  Download PDF Version Abstract This article examines the relatively unstudied field of the aesthetics of nature from a feminist perspective. Currently a feminist aesthetics of nature does not exist in...

Causation as Metaphor–a Catachresis

Robert C Robinson, University of Georgia, USA  Download PDF Version Abstract The thesis of this paper is that causation, when described and treated as a metaphor, increases in explanatory power, while diminishing the problems associated with standard analysis of it....