Coda

Throughout this book, I have spoken primarily of trans poetics as a place where making happens. I have aligned it with edges and cracks, undercommons and underflows, the behind and the beneath. But trans poetics is also a movement, a way of moving in relation to what already moves, but in another direction. It is oriented sideways and at an angle askew from things themselves, and the surfaces and flows that typically distinguish them. Methodologically speaking, then, any analysis that means to enact trans poiesis in its very inquiry (and to track trans poetics in its materiality) has to mimic that movement. It has to assume a tangential relation to mainstream inclusive policy work, but also to all kinds of organized knowledge and thought-out projects that have become institutionalized, over the years, because of and on the back of poetics. It has to privilege transversality and translocality.