We Are Nothing and So Can You - Jasper Bernes

Descriere We Are Nothing and So Can You - Jasper Bernes

\nWe Are Nothing and So Can You We Are Nothing and So Can You is a book-length poem for the long 21st century to come, a poem of revolts past, present, and future. In alternating passages of rhapsodic verse and speculative prose, Bernes plots the dynamic movement of history, both irreversible and recursive, moving forward directly and by twists and turns, in sentences and lines, standing still and hurtling toward the abyss. This is an epic for an age without heroes save collective heroes, leaping from the occupied plazas and rioting cities of the aughts and teens to futures alternately desolate and full of promise.\n \nI think this is one of the poem's great achievements-to write a description of a post-revolutionary moment that isn't a utopia; to use techniques that orbit wider than realism, while looping through a descriptive realism nonetheless. This is beyond the resources of realist fiction when it tries to think about capitalism. The best dystopian science fiction, meanwhile, when it tries to extend capitalism into the future, tends to invite allegorical readings that, while pleasurable, usually lose sight of the thing Bernes has kept our gaze on all the while: the conditions of production under capital, the ones that make us merely 'programmable, ' make us just sad apes. --Chris Nealon, The Price of Value (forthcoming 2016)\n \n \nFrom We Are Nothing and So Can You\n \nAs for the rest of us, we learn\n \nsomething important about ourselves\n \nwatching from the loading dock\n \nas the mushroom cloud\n \nannounces the end of another season--\n \ne.g., that each riot really is\n \nan assemblage of other riots\n \nwashed up on the boulevards, \n \nfrom whose faded corpses\n \none dresses and arms one's comrades\n \nthe total inadequacy of which\n \nas equipment for the task at hand\n \ntraces out in negative\n \nthe seat perilous of the party historical\n \nthe poetry of the future\n \nwhose sweet new sounds\n \nwill fill with meaning slowly\n \nwhile the seas rise.\n \n\n \n

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