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As the French thinker Jean-Claude Milner points out in a recent important study: the ‘revolutionary creed’ that governed global political action in modernity no longer holds as a horizon for action. What emerges in its wake is the fundamental experience that there are no longer any political differences able to curb rapacious technocapitalist expansion; the only difference that makes a difference is that of the immanent outside, the environment, the conditions of life itself. This poem arises at this juncture, where technological progress has become indistinguishable from the extermination of conditions of planetary life as we know it.
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That reactionary maddy Ezra Pound thought that he, Ezra, had caused both World Wars through his recitations of Sestina: Altaforte, a poem written in the persona of the aforementioned Bertran.
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Clemens, J. (2019). Just Come Now. In: Jennison, R., Murphet, J. (eds) Communism and Poetry. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17156-8_12
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