Abstract
One of the ideas underlying this study is that modernity has imposed a mode of thinking based on artificial categorial separations (nature vs. culture/politics, subject vs. object, human vs. non-human), which implicitly led to the emergence of modern literature as a form of resistance to science—often at a declarative level than in practice. Post-millennial experimental-scientific poetry, whose stakes I will attempt to outline here, reconciles these categories by articulating new modes of subjectivity and redefining the human in relation to nonhuman elements and to the limits of (trans)poetic language. The basic premise underlying the building of the argument is that Romanian poetry has largely proven resistant to the epistemological field of technosciences, using their resources for exclusively aesthetic purposes, as was the case in high modernism or neomodernism. After approximately two decades following the democratization of literary discourses, poetry begins to internalize techno-scientific frameworks, employing their tools as a code for redefining and (re) engaging the self within an expanded network of agents and phenomena, grounded in tacit political and ethical bases. The case studies will capture the formulas orchestrated by several representative voices of this poetic direction, such as val chimic, Gabi Eftimie, Vlad Moldovan and Mihók Tamás. The symmetrization of intertextual forms of existence is achieved through hybridization, this type of discourse revealing an ontological pluralism, a network distributed across modes of being.
© 2026 Iulia Pietraru, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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