PROFESSOR DANIEL KATZ (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)<\/p>\n
Good Sameness: Ben Lerner\u2019s Song of the Fungible<\/p>\n
Wednesday 5 April 2023, 17:30
\nRoom HZ-60<\/p>\n
This talk will focus on the trope of the \u201cfungible\u201d in Ben Lerner\u2019s work, to see how it organises several related concerns: the relationship of the poet or artist to the collective, the relationship between language, subjectivity and intimacy, and the relationship of the exchange of goods and labour under capitalism to both of the preceding. To explore these problems, we will look at texts such as \u201cThe Hatred of Poetry,\u201d 10.04, The Topeka School, and Lerner\u2019s first book of poems, The Lichtenberg Figures. As we shall see, \u201cfungibility\u201d emerges as an ambivalent figure stressing at once several crucial \u201cincommensurabilities\u201d along with poetry\u2019s infinite, and thereby potentially sublime, ability to construct likeness.<\/p>\n
Daniel Katz is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PROFESSOR DANIEL KATZ (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK) Good Sameness: Ben Lerner\u2019s Song of the Fungible Wednesday 5 April 2023, 17:30 Room HZ-60 This talk will focus on the trope of the \u201cfungible\u201d in Ben Lerner\u2019s work, to see how it organises several related concerns: the relationship of the poet or artist [\u2026] <\/p>\n