THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BODY AND THE LITERARY EXPRESSION OF THE OTHER AND THE ME. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC POETRY
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BODY AND THE LITERARY EXPRESSION OF THE OTHER AND THE ME. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Science and poetry both use metaphor as a sublime expression of communication. Nothing new here, we could say if we accept the fact that since ancient times, the brightest minds had to possess knowledge in mathematics, philosophy and poetry. The passage of time has brought us to a present in which the role of poetry in contemporary society is minimised, with poets easily ignored by the majority. Their creation remains a niche effort, shared only with a few connoisseurs of a special sensitivity. There is a pattern transmitted from one generation to another in which the poet is frail, with poor health, speaks incomprehensibly, lives and dies in poverty; a situation not at all suitable with the current consumerist ideal in which success is measured by the weight of other values and in which everything we define as science is accepted as the standard of reality.But what happens when molecular biologists and entomologists (like Tatiana Kačan, „Les noces cellulaires”, 2025), or a poet (like Sarah Howe), is fascinated by relativity and writes poems dedicated to Stephen Hawking?Our intention is to follow, in the lines below, the double metaphor, poetic and scientific, digging into this archaeology of the body, of the revelations of the self from the inside out, on the subtle line in which we meet the other in an Anthropocene present that regains, for the scientist, Renaissance accents.

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