Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal
By David Dowker and Christine Stewart
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Virtualis - David Dowker
Virtualis
Virtualis
Topologies of the Unreal
David Dowker & Christine Stewart
BookThug · 2013
FIRST EDITION
Copyright © David Dowker & Christine Stewart, 2013
The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of The Canada Council for The Arts and The Ontario Arts Council.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library and Archives Canada
Cataloguing in Publication
Dowker, David, 1955-
Virtualis : topologies of the unreal / David Dowker and Christine Stewart.
Poems.
ISBN 978-1-927040-71-3
I. Stewart, Christine, 1962- II. Title.
PS8607.O98747V57 2013 C811’.6 C2013-901281-8
Contents
I. Phantasmagoria, or the Empire of Senses
II. Grid Meridian
III. The Flowery Realm of the Barricades
Some Readings
I. Phantasmagoria, or the Empire of Senses
No longer a phantasm and not yet a sign, the unreal object of melancholy introjection opens a space that is neither the hallucinated oneiric scene of the phantasms nor the indifferent world of natural objects. . . . The topology of the unreal that melancholy designs in its immobile dialectic is, at the same time, a topology of culture.
– Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture
Patience arrays its strategies.¹ The blue sky faience
and the startling flows. Tincture of days passing.
Rapture of plant consciousness, suppliant plaintive
refrain. Sidereal inertia of the earth return posture
and the vibratory distances between dreams.
This time the vertigo is temporary. It effects a textuality
of sex. Brazen