Retallack, Joan (ed.): The Supposium: Thought Experiments & Poethical Play in Difficult Times

The Supposium: Thought Experiments & Poethical Play in Difficult Times Edited Joan Retallack (Litmus Press, paperback) Publication Date: May 14, 2018 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Essay. Art. Collaboration. Think of it as a multi-genre catalog of seriously humorous and grave responses to the crises of attention and value our human plurality of "we"s is so spectacularly prone to. Urgent in the moment, always intricately linked to present pasts and futures seen as the arcs or flatlines of history, the first challenge is sustaining enough vitality of intellect and imagination to engage in procedural optimism — thought experiments and other forms of creative play that express at minimum the willingness to be pleasantly surprised. THE SUPPOSIUM is, in that spirit, a collaboration that began as x-centric event at MoMA and, in this final stage, has become a strangely joyous book. The gamut of intellectual and imaginative; performative, visual, and poetic exper