RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Toward an ecopoetics of randomness and design: an introduction T2 Hacia una eco-poética de la aleatoriedad y el diseño: una introducción A1 Bellarsi, Franca A1 Rauscher, Judith K1 Ecopoetics K1 Poiesis K1 Randomness K1 Design K1 Entanglement K1 Ecotone K1 Adaptive mapping K1 Ecopoética K1 Aleatoriedad K1 Diseño K1 Enmarañamiento K1 Ecotono K1 Mapeo flexible K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB What ecopoetics is and what it does, how it relates to but also exceeds ecopoetry, and the nature of its relationship to the more general poiesis (‟making”) at work in the material universe remain open and thorny questions. Moreover, what are the insights from the more specialised field of experimental ecopoetry that we may bring to our understanding of ecopoetics in general, whatever the genre and material support on which environmentally-inflected poiesis deploys itself? As this Special Focus section shows, one may begin to answer such questions by taking into account notions of randomness and design, concepts that operate in experimental texts and the material universe at large, but which have not been sufficiently foregrounded in the ongoing theoretical debate on ecopoetics. Any sustained effort to understand how randomness and design permeate ecopoetics requires a vision of ecopoetics that goes beyond (eco)poetry. Providing some examples of what such a broader vision of ecopoetics might look like is also one of the goals of this Special Focus. Unfolding in three stages, this introductory essay will first map out the elements and orientations that inform the debates on ecopoetics, while also touching upon the adjacent territories of geopoetics, zoopoetics, écopoétique and Ökopoetik. A second part will meditate on the elusive concepts of randomness and design, and on how ecopoetics might be considered a form of adaptive mapping of their ever-fluid entanglement. The third part, finally, presents the contributions to this Special Focus section and surveys the different facets of the co-constitutive operations of randomness and design explored in each. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37660 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37660 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 26-abr-2024