Material Frictions: : Troubling the Ethics of Experiment in the Ecopoetic Work of Rita Wong and Christian Bök

Ryan  Fitzpatrick

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

Material Frictions: : Troubling the Ethics of Experiment in the Ecopoetic Work of Rita Wong and Christian Bök

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Submitted: July 14, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

References

Anand, Madhur, and Adam Dickinson, editors. Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry. Your Scrivener, 2009.
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke UP, 2007.
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke UP, 2010.
Berlant, Lauren. “Intimacy: A Special Issue.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, pp. 281-88.
Bök, Christian. “Department of English: ‘The Xenotext’ (a Progress Report).” The Irmacs Centre, 25 Jan. 2013, www.irmacs.sfu.ca/event/2221.
Bök, Christian. “From Our Soundbooth: A Conversation with Christian Bök.” Interview by Leanna Petronella et al. Missouri Review, vol. 7, 2016, www.missourireview.com/audiovisual/2016/04/07/a-conversation-with-christian-bok/.
Bök, Christian. ‘Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science. Northwestern UP, 2002.
Bök, Christian. “‘Teaching Myself Molecular Biology Is Just Part of the Process’: Christian Bök.” Interview by Kaveh Akbar. Divedapper, 13 Oct. 2014, www.divedapper.com/interview/christian-bok/.
Bök, Christian. “Two Dots over a Vowel.” Boundary 2, vol. 36, no. 3, 2009, pp. 11-24.
Bök, Christian. The Xenotext: Book 1. Coach House, 2015.
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Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Duke UP, 2012.
Dickinson, Adam. “The Astronauts.” Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, edited by Madhur Anand and Adam Dickinson, Your Scrivener, 2009, pp. 9-18.
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Kim, Christine. “Resuscitations in Rita Wong’s Forage: Globalization, Ecologies and Value Chains.” Open Letter, vol. 13, no. 9, 2009, pp. 166-73.
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Miki, Roy. “Are You Restless Too? Not to Worry, So Is Rita Wong: Towards a Poetics of the Apprehensive.” In Flux, edited by Smaro Kamboureli, NeWest, 2011, pp. 177-205.
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Wong, Rita. undercurrent. Nightwood, 2015.
Wong, Rita. “Waters as Potential Paths to Peace.” Material Cultures in Canada, edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015, pp. 209-21.
Wong, Rita, and Cindy Mochizuki. perpetual. Nightwood, 2015.
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Zantingh, Matthew. “When Things Act Up: Thing Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Toxic Discourse in Rita Wong’s Poetry.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 622-46.

How to Cite

Fitzpatrick, R. . (2021). Material Frictions: : Troubling the Ethics of Experiment in the Ecopoetic Work of Rita Wong and Christian Bök. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 181–204. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32505

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[1] Anand, Madhur, and Adam Dickinson, editors. Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry. Your Scrivener, 2009.

[2] Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke UP, 2007.

[3] Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke UP, 2010.

[4] Berlant, Lauren. “Intimacy: A Special Issue.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, pp. 281-88.

[5] Bök, Christian. “Department of English: ‘The Xenotext’ (a Progress Report).” The Irmacs Centre, 25 Jan. 2013, www.irmacs.sfu.ca/event/2221.

[6] Bök, Christian. “From Our Soundbooth: A Conversation with Christian Bök.” Interview by Leanna Petronella et al. Missouri Review, vol. 7, 2016, www.missourireview.com/audiovisual/2016/04/07/a-conversation-with-christian-bok/.

[7] Bök, Christian. ‘Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science. Northwestern UP, 2002.

[8] Bök, Christian. “‘Teaching Myself Molecular Biology Is Just Part of the Process’: Christian Bök.” Interview by Kaveh Akbar. Divedapper, 13 Oct. 2014, www.divedapper.com/interview/christian-bok/.

[9] Bök, Christian. “Two Dots over a Vowel.” Boundary 2, vol. 36, no. 3, 2009, pp. 11-24.

[10] Bök, Christian. The Xenotext: Book 1. Coach House, 2015.

[11] Bök, Christian. “The Xenotext Experiment.” SCRIPTed, vol. 5, no. 2, 2008, pp. 227-31.

[12] Callanan, Andreae. “The Xenotext’s Woman Problem.” Canadian Notes and Queries, 2017,

[13] notesandqueries.ca/canlitcrit-essay-contest/1st-place-the-xenotexts-woman-problemby-andreae-callanan/.

[14] Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Duke UP, 2012.

[15] Dickinson, Adam. “The Astronauts.” Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, edited by Madhur Anand and Adam Dickinson, Your Scrivener, 2009, pp. 9-18.

[16] Gordon, Jon. Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts, and Fictions. U of Alberta P, 2015.

[17] Kim, Christine. “Resuscitations in Rita Wong’s Forage: Globalization, Ecologies and Value Chains.” Open Letter, vol. 13, no. 9, 2009, pp. 166-73.

[18] Majzels, Robert. “The Xenotext Experiment and the Gift of Death.” Jacket2, 29 Mar. 2013, jacket2.org/article/xenotext-experiment-and-gift-death.

[19] Maracle, Lee. Memory Serves: Oratories. Edited by Smaro Kamboureli, NeWest, 2015.

[20] Marlowe, Christopher. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44675/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love.

[21] Miki, Roy. “Are You Restless Too? Not to Worry, So Is Rita Wong: Towards a Poetics of the Apprehensive.” In Flux, edited by Smaro Kamboureli, NeWest, 2011, pp. 177-205.

[22] Povinelli, Elizabeth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality. Duke UP, 2006.

[23] Schuster, Joshua. “On Reading Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 Ten Thousand Years Later: A Xenoreview.” Jacket2, 17 Feb. 2016, jacket2.org/reviews/reading-christianboks-xenotext-book-1-ten-thousand-years-later.

[24] Smailbegović, Ada. “From Code to Shape: Material-Semiotic Imbrications in the ‘Particle Zoo’ of Molecular Poetics.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol.29, no. 1, 2018, pp. 134-72.

[25] Todd, Zoe. “Decolonial Dreams: Unsettling the Academy through Namewak.” The New (New) Corpse, edited by Caroline Picard, Green Lantern, 2015, pp. 104-17.

[26] Wershler, Darren. “Canadian Pataphysics: Geognostic Interrogations of a Distant Somewhere.” Semiotext(e) Canadas, edited by Jordan Zinovich, Semiotexte, 1994, pp. 66-78.

[27] Wershler, Darren. “The Xenotext Experiment, So Far.” Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 37, 2012, pp. 43-60.

[28] Wershler, Darren, and Christian Bök, editors. Millennial ’Pataphysics. Special issue of Open Letter, vol. 9, no. 7, 1997.

[29] Wong, Rita. forage. Nightwood, 2007.

[30] Wong, Rita. Interview by Heather Milne. Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics, edited by Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, Coach House, 2009, pp. 343-53.

[31] Wong, Rita. “Seeds, Streams, See/Pages.” Open Letter, vol. 13, no. 9, 2009, pp. 21-27.

[32] Wong, Rita. undercurrent. Nightwood, 2015.

[33] Wong, Rita. “Waters as Potential Paths to Peace.” Material Cultures in Canada, edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015, pp. 209-21.

[34] Wong, Rita, and Cindy Mochizuki. perpetual. Nightwood, 2015.

[35] Wurstwagen, Kurt. “Piccu Carlu: The Muskoka-Maya Connexion.” Open Letter, vol. 4, nos. 6-7, 1981, pp. 144-54.

[36] Zantingh, Matthew. “When Things Act Up: Thing Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Toxic Discourse in Rita Wong’s Poetry.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 622-46.