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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPoetic Acts & New Media deftly combines interrogation of contemporary poetry, film, and new media. Tom O'Connor combines philosophical, aesthetic, and socio-cultural analysis to make connections and provide insights into a wealth of material rangingfrom the poetry of Langston Hughes, Tony Medina, and David Wojahn to films of David Lynch, Cameron Crowe, and Spike Jonze to the cult TV-series Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Engaging and challenging, O'Connor finds poetry surging through our new media environment... -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
Tom O'Connor embarks on a timely exploration of the potentials of media for poetry. He puts an end to the useless separation of poetry from the media arts. In place of the stale division of the authentic poetic act versus the media spectacle, he opens up a new way of thinking about the poetic event in any and every media, as poised against domesticating and normalizing forms in verse, film, television, or wherever. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the intersection of techne and poesis. -- McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto
Poetic Acts & New Media deftly combines interrogation of contemporary poetry, film, and new media. Tom O'Connor combines philosophical, aesthetic, and socio-cultural analysis to make connections and provide insights into a wealth of material ranging from the poetry of Langston Hughes, Tony Medina, and David Wojahn to films of David Lynch, Cameron Crowe, and Spike Jonze to the cult TV-series Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Engaging and challenging, O'Connor finds poetry surging through our new media environment. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
O'Connor turns toward poetry as not only relevant in contemporary American culture, but vital for its participants….In this way, O'Connor suggests that poetry allows one not only to resist the potentially oppressive forces of one's environment, but to transform them in a genuine creative act-not unlike O'Connor's book itself, which reconsiders one of our oldest forms of media (poetry) in a way that both reaffirms and renews its potential in a multimedia environment. * Project Muse, Spring 2010 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Media Poetry vs. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry Chapter 5 A Hollywood of Poetry Chapter 6 Bourgeois Myth vs. Media Poetry in Prime-Time: Re-Visiting Mark Frost & David Lynch'sTwin Peaks Chapter 7 "It's Rather Poetic":Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Delueze's Becoming Art Chapter 8 Coda: The Fine Art of Convergence Part 9 Works Cited Part 10 Index Part 11 About the Author
