Poetyka wielościowa wiersza i materii. Kacper Bartczak i Karen Barad w lekturze dyfrakcyjnej
Multitude Poetics of Poem and Matter: A Diffractive Reading of Kacper Bartczak and Karen Barad

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a diffractive reading of Kacper Bartczak’s poetic work alongside Karen Barad’s concept of agential realism. The first section introduces Barad’s diffractive methodology. The author then argues that, in both theory and practice, Bartczak’s poem functions as a kind of diffractive grid – a device through which various material-discursive practices are concentrated-through-dispersion. This framework reveals shared onto-epistemological intuitions between Bartczak and Barad. Like the American theoretical physicist, the Polish poet moves away from individualistic metaphysics and its representationalist assumptions, arriving at the conclusion that subjectivity belongs not to the lyrical “I” speaking in the poem, but to the entire poetic situation. Moreover, the work of the poem not only resembles the work of diffraction, but diffraction itself appears as a kind of poetic labor – what Bartczak calls the “greater poem,” which may be understood as the autopoietic activity of matter.

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