Description
Book SynopsisThe blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist reconstruction of the universe. However, prior to the futurist break, a group of early-twentieth-century poets, later dubbed crepuscolari (crepusculars), had already begun an attack against the dominant cultural system, using their poetry as the locus in which useless little objects clashed with the traditional poetry of human greatness and stylistic perfection.
The Quiet Avant-Garde draws from a number of twenty-first-century theories vital materialism, object-oriented ontology, and environmental humanities as well as Bruno Latour’s criticism of modernity to illustrate how the crepuscular movement sabotaged the modern mindset and launched the counter-discourse of the Italian avant-garde by blurring the line dividing people from things. This liminal poetics, at the crossroad of tradition, modernism, and the avant-garde, acted as the initiator of the ethical and environmental
Table of Contents
Introduction - Poetry at the Twilight 1. A Matter of Things: Modernity, Modernism, Avant-Garde 2. The Avant-Garde is Made of Useless Objects 3. Being a Living Thing: Toward a New Notion of Body 4. Love and the Grand Solidarity of Sound 5. The Avant-Garde Immersive Onto-Cognition
