Abstract
In his article "Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry" Dean A. Brink discusses the ecological dimension of the poetry of one of the founding voices in modern Japanese poetry, Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886-1942). Brink argues that Hagiwara developed a poetics characterized by engagements with nonhuman organisms and actants to situate the materiality of these actants in ways that diffuse the binary of "language" and "nature" and present a postnatural relationality that Bruno Latour describes. Drawing on the recent work of Alain Badiou, Brink explores materialist alternatives to representationalism—including the Lacanian triangle of the imaginary real and symbolic—by emphasizing human-nonhuman relations and Badiouian models of change in reading poetry in the Anthropocene.
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Brink, Dean A
"Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.4
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2561>
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