![]() It is not coincidental that scholars invested in marginal identity politics now consider the care, ethics, and ontologies of objects, matter, and animals as worthy of serious inquiry. This shift in how we understand the transgenic underpins certain feminist and queer materialist critiques of the ways that new understandings of scientific matter transgress and exceed the biological body. The first is that the transgenic imagination has morphed away from disciplinary boundaries within medicine and agricultural policy and is reorienting our aesthetic categories in light of debates about artistic freedom, pleasure, and comfort. ![]() I make two arguments here about transgenic poetics. The transgenic imagination has transformed the way we conceive of poetry’s engagement with subjectivity by borrowing a complex nonhuman agency from a scientific culture centered around customization and mutation. ![]() In the past ten years, theories from the molecular sciences developed by scholars such as Colin Milburn (“molecular erotics” ) and Nikolas Rose (“the molecularization of vitality” ) have given us a foundation to investigate an emerging transgenic paradigm based on the evolutionary potential of mutation. ![]() In this essay, I focus on what I call transgenic poetics, examining how molecular culture has shaped contemporary poetry. ![]()
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