This chapter focuses on a special kind of poetic dispositif that transforms forms of language and forms of life, namely poetic documents. A poetic document follows the move that I have described from the poem as a fixed object (and of poetry as a genre with well-defined properties) to a performative conception of a poetic dispositif (operating between word and world, author and reader, etc.). It operates by rearranging pre-existing texts and thus breaks down the traditional distinction between the poetic and the ordinary. One of the reasons that might explain this turn to document in contemporary French poetry is the multiplication of information. In The Poetics of Information Overload, Paul Stephens shows how poetry evolved with and adapted to new technologies throughout the twentieth century. He argues that ‘the poetics of information overload show that there are many possible forms, as well as frames of reference, available to contemporary poetry’ (Stephens 2015, 36). Poetic documents are one form of adaptation to technological changes and the transformative process at play in these poetic practices in turn affects the readers who can change their perception of the world, who can now see aspects that were hidden by the normativity of language and perception. Poetic documents reveal a transformative force of poetry that affects the uses of language and ways of being in the world, forms of language and forms of life. I will show in this chapter that even a minimal intervention in the original text can lead to radical change, understood more specifically through the philosophical notions of linguistic oppression and epistemic injustice.

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Poetic Documents: Transforming Forms of Language, Transforming Forms of Life

  • Philip Mills

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This chapter focuses on a special kind of poetic dispositif that transforms forms of language and forms of life, namely poetic documents. A poetic document follows the move that I have described from the poem as a fixed object (and of poetry as a genre with well-defined properties) to a performative conception of a poetic dispositif (operating between word and world, author and reader, etc.). It operates by rearranging pre-existing texts and thus breaks down the traditional distinction between the poetic and the ordinary. One of the reasons that might explain this turn to document in contemporary French poetry is the multiplication of information. In The Poetics of Information Overload, Paul Stephens shows how poetry evolved with and adapted to new technologies throughout the twentieth century. He argues that ‘the poetics of information overload show that there are many possible forms, as well as frames of reference, available to contemporary poetry’ (Stephens 2015, 36). Poetic documents are one form of adaptation to technological changes and the transformative process at play in these poetic practices in turn affects the readers who can change their perception of the world, who can now see aspects that were hidden by the normativity of language and perception. Poetic documents reveal a transformative force of poetry that affects the uses of language and ways of being in the world, forms of language and forms of life. I will show in this chapter that even a minimal intervention in the original text can lead to radical change, understood more specifically through the philosophical notions of linguistic oppression and epistemic injustice.