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[Digital Poetics 4.2] Ophélimité: a specimen of emptiness by Keston Sutherland
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[Digital Poetics 4.2] Ophélimité: a specimen of emptiness by Keston Sutherland

This essay describes some of the early attacks on Marx by right-wing economists. It considers some of the consequences of the rejection of the labour theory of value and the development of an increasingly mathematized economic theory of marginal utility. What are the implications of this shift from a critical theory of the lives of producers to an econometric and nominalist theory of the habits of consumers? What does it mean for poetry?

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[Digital Poetics 4.1] Two Poems by Shani Cadwallender
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[Digital Poetics 4.1] Two Poems by Shani Cadwallender

These poems, paying notice to un-idyllic trees in urban landscapes, probe at the uneasy but productive identifications between humans and nature made possible by language. The first, about a poplar on Peckham Rye, reinscribes the site of Blake’s vision of Ezekiel in an examination of literary legacy; the second explores perception and the trouble with anthropocentric metaphor through an observation of leaves that linger around streetlights.

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Digital Poetics 3.15 The Remedy is Resistance: On Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation’ by Jeanine Hourani
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Digital Poetics 3.15 The Remedy is Resistance: On Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi’s ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation’ by Jeanine Hourani

In this review, Jeanine Hourani highlights the importance of centering the socio-political, historical and material realities of mental health in Palestine. Honouring the book’s methodological and theoretical approaches, Jeanine amplifies the voices of Palestinian mental health workers and uses a Fanonian, anti-colonial lens to illustrate the revolutionary and liberatory potential of psychoanalysis.

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