Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics -- Chapter 1: New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary: From Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low -- Poetic Vocabulary -- Coleridge's Desynonymy -- Zukofsky's Dictionary -- Mac Low's Lexicons -- New Meaning -- Chapter 2: The Secret History of the Equal Sign: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E between Discourse and Text -- Avant-Garde Paradox -- Postrevolutionary Poetics -- Legend's Text -- Multiauthors (M) -- Multiauthors (F) -- Multiauthors and the Listserv -- Chapter 3: The Bride of the Assembly Line: Radical Poetics in Construction -- The Descent -- Cultural Poetics -- Stein's Ford -- Assembling This -- The Bride -- Chapter 4: The Constructivist Moment: From El Lissitzky to Detroit Techno -- The Great Divide -- Lissitzky's Examples -- Constructivist Poetics -- Detroit Techno -- Moments -- Chapter 5: Nonnarrative and the Construction of History: An Era of Stagnation, the Fall of Saigon -- Nonnarrative Poetics -- The Construction of History -- An Era of Stagnation -- The Fall of Saigon -- Nonnarrative Ending -- Chapter 6: Negative Examples: Theories of Negativity in the Avant-Garde -- Negativity -- Dark Matter -- The Nothing That Is -- Limit Situations -- Negativities -- Chapter 7: Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov -- After the Fall -- Dragomoshchenko's Metapoetics -- Kabakov's Kommunalka -- Post-Soviet/Postmodern -- Chapter 8: Zone: The Poetics of Space in Posturban Detroit -- The Postmodern Turn -- The Object of Spatial Fantasy -- The Modern as Spatial Fantasy -- Boundaries as Subject -- Social Space and Negativity -- Gaps between Terrains -- Art and Negativity -- Negativity and Social Space -- For a Critical Regionalism -- Site and Nonsite -- Douglas's Le Détroit -- Posturban Detroit -- Notes -- Bibliography.

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