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urn:uuid:909a04b1-26df-4737-a030-8c2d3d839ce2 03 15 9781685712051 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Imagining What We Don't Know Creative Theory and Critical Bodies 1 A01 Lisa Samuels <p>Lisa Samuels experiments with writing, art, and relational theory in transnational life. The author of fifteen books, from The Seven Voices (O Books, 1998) to Livestream (Shearsman Books, 2023), and of many chapbooks and essays, Samuels also edits literary work, collaborates with other artists, and performs internationally. Samuels’s doctoral theory-practice, deformance, is an established interpretive method; the transmigration epic Tomorrowland (Shearsman Books, 2009) has been versioned as a soundscape audio and an art film (dir. Wes Tank); Tender Girl (Dusie, 2015; Mekana Devojka, trans. Milan Pupezin) re-envisions the neosurrealist novel; and The Guardian recognized Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman Books, 2017) in its annual top ten poetry books. Samuels grew up in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, became an academic in the US, and currently lives in Oceania.</p> 01 eng 00 320 03 23 Art+Aesthetics 12 HPCF3 10 PHI018000 23 theory 23 Fabulations 10 NAT010000 23 quantum life 12 RNA 23 art 23 Philosophy 23 phenomenology 23 ethics 23 poetry 23 ecology 01 06 03 00 <p>Bringing together perception, ecology, community, lingual value, and quantum life, Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies presents twenty-four essays and theory poems that blend interpretive neologisms — wild dialectics, distributed centrality, membranism, deformance, bioautography, transplace, soft text, and more — with readings of visionary philosophers and the art and writing of Algeria, Australasia, the Caribbean, Oceania, the UK, and the US.</p><p>Committed to experimental ideation and relational ethics, Imagining What We Don’t Know is for art and theory practitioners, philosophy rebels, creative writers, and anyone who relishes thinking about contemporary art, transnational and transdisciplinary life, and how we imagine with language. Imagining What We Don’t Know presents a biblio-architecture of “blurprints” built with theories of the embodied mind that are elemental, entangled, and electrified by the political. This is creative theory, hovering with alterities of art and interpretation and imagining with critical attention.</p> punctum books 01 punctum books 04 01 20260223 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685712044 06 15 9781685712051 06 15 9781685713089 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01