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The Poetry Of The Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, And The Multitude,Used
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The Poetry of the Possible challenges the conventional image of modernism as a socially phobic formation, arguing that modernisms abstractions and difficulties are ways of imagining unrealized powers of collective selforganization. Establishing a conceptual continuum between modernism and contemporary theorists such as Paulo Virno, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou, Joel Nickels rediscovers modernisms attempts to document the creative potenza of the multitude.By examining scenes of collective life in works by William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis, Laura Riding, and Wallace Stevens, Nickels resurrects modernisms obsession with constituent power: the raw, indeterminate capacity for reciprocal counsel that continually constitutes and reconstitutes established political regimes. In doing so, he reminds us that our own attempts to imagine leaderless networks of collective initiative are not so much breaks with modernist forms of knowledge as restagings of some of modernisms most radical moments of political speculation.Setting modernisms individual and collective models of spontaneity in dialogue with theorists of political spontaneity such as Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno, Nickels retells the story of modernism as the struggle to represent powers of collective selforganization that lie outside established regimes of political representation.
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