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Affective frames and intra-relational finites in Jorie Graham’s Sea Change

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This article brings into conversation a Badiouian ethics and Karen Barad’s
post-phenomenological relationality of ‘‘intra-actions’’ among the human and
nonhuman so as to situate the environmentally and politically engaged poetry
included in Jorie Graham’s Sea Change. Criticism has avoided exploring the
interplay between stylistic choices and political dimensions in her poetry, which
includes engagements with pressing environmental issues today (global warming,
rising seas, and chaotic weather) preemptive wars and questions of plausible poetic
agency it self Foregrounding a material dimension while still maintaining a sense of
responsibility this essay highlights Alain Badiou’s use of poetic configurations as
‘‘subjects’’ engaging in ethical world - recognitions that help situate an important
underlying posthuman ethos evident in Graham’s poetr Barad in a discourse with
roots in quantum physics, argues that we must rethink representation from an
entirely different phenomenology of intra-actions beginning with relations, not
objects or Cartesian selves. Thus both Badiou and Barad in radically different but
complementary ways, situate ontological finites—poems and sites of intra-action—
as means of overcoming Derridean differance which remains one formal cornerstone
of postmodern displacement evident in American mass media’s post-truth
equalization of all positions without situating possibilities of coherent analysis or
engagement. In conversation with the work of Judith Butler as well as Badiou and
Barad this essay intends to make a small contribution to feminist posthumanism
and politics and expand our sense of ethical and affective engagement in New
Materialist criticism.

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