Tony Lopez : le retour du réel
Tony Lopez’s poetry is to be inscribed within the context of Postmodernist interrogations as they were shaping up in the late 1990s around the notions of merchandisation, consumerism, the lessening power and meaningfulness of the signified through the intense circulation of signifiers. Yet it strugg...
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2009-01-01
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| description | Tony Lopez’s poetry is to be inscribed within the context of Postmodernist interrogations as they were shaping up in the late 1990s around the notions of merchandisation, consumerism, the lessening power and meaningfulness of the signified through the intense circulation of signifiers. Yet it struggles against rather than adheres to the processes of fragmentation and reifying of both objects and signs. Lopez delves into the real so as to highlight and question the strictures of commodity culture’s underlying order. Aesthetic preoccupations are allied to the search for lost ethics and the renewal of ideological discourse. This discourse contradicts the overwhelming rhetoric of the cynical trend of Postmodernism. This article defines Tony Lopez’s work at the turn of the millennium as enforcing a poetics beyond the empty gestures of pastiche and poetical karaoke, tensely negotiating the demands of survival in the consumer society and the quest to impart some meaning to this, our, world. |
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