Contemporary Visual Poetry

<p>This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing poem-objects and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding that is “situated”. First the eye is theorised with respect to ethical understanding. When visual poets reclaim vision visual poetics becomes a feminist praxis. In Paula Claire and Maggie O’Sullivan visual poetry becomes an ecological practice concerned with connectivity in the entanglements of <i>natureculture</i>. In O’Sullivan Campanello Bergvall and Philip spatial and temporal sense (de)formation sustains radical forms of voicing and eyewitness. Finally works by Mez Breeze and Stephanie Strickland expand our understanding of visual poetry in digital (electronic virtual reality and artificial intelligence) contexts in which technology and affect are intimately connected. These visual texts open up Braidotti’s question with respect to how we are to “visualize the subject as a transversal entity encompassing the human our genetic neighbours the animals and the earth as a whole and to do so within an understandable language”.</p>