1st Edition

Latin American Technopoetics Scientific Explorations in New Media

By Scott Weintraub Copyright 2018
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent poets and artists engage, and in turn are engaged by, scientific discourses. In its innovative readings of contemporary digital media works, Latin American Technopoetics is the first book to investigate the powerful dialogue between recent... Read more

Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media



Table of Contents



List of figures and tables



Foreword, by Leonardo Flores



Acknowlegements



Introduction: Latin American Technopoetics, Scientifically Speaking



Chapter I. Autopoiesis and Robopoetics in Gustavo Romano’s IP Poetry Project



Chapter II. The Poetics of Visualizing Scientific Complexity: Santiago Ortiz



Chapter III. Loss Pequeño Glazier’s Quantum Poetics: Algorithmic Poetry and its Variants



Chapter IV. A Poetics of Biocybernetic Reproducibility: Eduardo Kac’s Telematic and



Transgenic Art



Concluding Thoughts on (New) Media and Mediation: Locating the Latin American in



Contemporary Technopoetics



Afterword. Carlos Cociña and Luis Correa-Díaz’s Scientific Technopoetics (todavía in Print)



Works Cited

Biography

Scott Weintraub (PhD Emory University, 2006) is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where he teaches classes on 20th-21st-century Latin American literature, poetry, cultural studies, literary theory, and the relationship between literature, philosophy, science, and technology. He is the author or co-editor of over ten books and special journal issues, including two books on experimental Chilean poet Juan Luis Martínez; he has published extensively in journals and edited collections in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe.