Work in Progress Seminar

Poetic and Scientific Imagination

24th October 2013, 6pm

First Floor Common Lounge

Dr. Adam Staley Groves

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What is the relationship between poetry and technology? What are the ethical possibilities of the devices that are part of our everyday lives? Poetry can reveal much that is concealed in our use of devices and how we use them. In this talk, I shift the thinking of the poem from questioning technics toward a thinking of the scientific object. I am particularly in want of questions and ideas regarding the scientific imagination and the scientist who examines and encounters degrees of reality.

In my current research I compare the reader of the poem (as the poem is an object) to the scientist who investigated material reality in want of the elusive object. The poem is tested by thought and the experience of language, and the image of the poem is generated by the traits of its written form. What are the intersections for scientists who examine reality with equal intent? I will pay particular attention to Gaston Bachelard’s concept of ‘’reverie’’. All are welcome, scientist are encouraged.