Date of Award
May 2018
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
English
First Advisor
Mauricio Kilwein-Guevara
Committee Members
Lane Hall, Stuart Moulthrop, Rebecca Dunham, Cesar Ferreria
Keywords
capitalist realism, game, panopticon, poetry, Rust Belt, Twine
Abstract
The poems in the following dissertation are informed by our contemporary notion of systems. The serial trajectories presented here critique and explore bureaucracies, taxonomies, biological constructions and capitalism in the era of ecological imperative. To that end, these poems seek to evoke the serial not just in terms of their own form and content, but also invite the reader to embrace a necessary multi-modality, to view the work as not limited to one platform of expression, but containing numerous ways of meaning-making. The intervention in contemporary letters the poems propose is contained within the realities they offer, simultaneously disrupted by and disrupting to the systems they embody. Ultimately, the work seeks to enact a transmedia détournement and present a world resistant to the controls of inequitable and disenfranchising systems.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Christopher McAllister, "The Wrong Sky" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 1952.
https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1952