... This short chapter discusses a traditional approach to erosion control in forests as a blueprint for poiesis, which is elaborated in the following chapters. The poetic stance appears here as deliberately staging dances of agency, and the absence of science and calculation is noted. This sort...

..., and the conclusion offers some preliminary thoughts on how education could be rejigged to bring poiesis to the fore. Paradigms hybridity education yin-yang balance ...

... The book’s introduction reviews the overall frame and concerns of the book, focusing on acting-with or poiesis as an unfamiliar but important pattern of action in the world and contrasting it with our usual pattern of acting on or enframing nature and the environment. It discusses the associated...

... body flesh humanism Negro poiēsis ...

... poiesis enframing ontology science technology cybernetics ...

... Sentient Flesh (Thinking in Disorder/Poiēsis in Black) is an interrogation of the relationship between Negro , poiēsis , and humanism . Names do more than designate things; they indicate an orientation in life, not in some abstract nominalist sense, but in the sense of a grammar...

... poetics poiesis Stefano Harney Fred Moten trans poets ...

... Kehre epochs of Being Gestell (technological frame) poiesis dwelling ...

... The Dutch have long been leaders in water engineering, and this chapter reviews the historic paradigm shift away from enframing and toward poiesis, exemplified in the Room for the River program and an experiment in rewilding the Oostvardersplassen. The chapter briefly discusses ontological...

... This chapter examines an extended example of poiesis, an ecosystem restoration project on the Colorado River. Poiesis appears here as a process of experimentation and adaptation centered on dances of agency between dam operators and the river’s ecosystem, leading to a regular choreography...

... of performative poiēsis in black . Here is where the theory of para-semiosis is developed as the dynamic constitution of the world in the recombinant fluidity of multiple enactments of referentiality, whereby being human is enunciated in the flow. It is also where poiēsis in black is discussed...

... the flesh expresses and enhances sentience, without denying the animal. It recounts how Lydia Parrish’s and Alan Lomax’s collection of “authentic” African American music, chiefly from the Georgia Sea Islands, constitutes an official archive at the expense of the living transmission of performative poiēsis...

... of love into grasp, into the fold of a proper self, but encounters and opens the self up to its incomprehensibility. We may well think of it as the love of poiēsis in black . Insofar as that poiēsis is a function of para-semiosis , it is a potentiality-of-being that might attend multiple...

... The coda is a preliminary exploration of two instantiations of para-semiosis that, while in resonant engagement with the love of- poiēsis in black , are not derivative of nor identical with it. One instantiation under consideration is the Algerian writer Nabile Farès’s encounter with James...