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SUMMARY:"Poetry\, Debt\, and the Problem of the Present"
DESCRIPTION:Debt is increasing at dramatic rates in the world’s richest c
 ountries\, which produces a unique experience of time: the wealth of the p
 resent is suspended\, held in a volatile future that is bound to the fluct
 uations of speculative finance. In these conditions\, what does the presen
 t mean? And how does literature confront this confusing\, volatile moment?
  How does it break out of its time and provide an innovative perspective t
 hat feels both urgent and disjunctive? In this seminar\, we will closely r
 ead a few recent poems to bring out the specific mechanisms and devices po
 ets use to escape from the constraints of our time\, in particular the eno
 rmous debt that withholds any experience of shared presence in the present
 . We will ask how poets offer us a critical view of the limitations of a s
 hared present. \\r\\nBio: Elliot C. Mason is a postdoctoral researcher at
  the University of Basel and the author of Poetics of Value: The Primacy o
 f Insurgency as Marxist Methodology (Brill 2026).
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Debt is increasing at dramatic rates in the world’s richest
  countries\, which produces a unique experience of time: the wealth of the
  present is suspended\, held in a volatile future that is bound to the flu
 ctuations of speculative finance. In these conditions\, what does the pres
 ent mean? And how does literature confront this confusing\, volatile momen
 t? How does it break out of its time and provide an innovative perspective
  that feels both urgent and disjunctive? In this seminar\, we will closely
  read a few recent poems to bring out the specific mechanisms and devices 
 poets use to escape from the constraints of our time\, in particular the e
 normous debt that withholds any experience of shared presence in the prese
 nt. We will ask how poets offer us a critical view of the limitations of a
  shared present.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Bio: Elliot C. Mason is a postdoctoral res
 earcher at the University of Basel and the author of <i>Poetics of Value: 
 The Primacy of Insurgency as Marxist Methodology</i> (Brill 2026).</p>
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