Fractal Economies

In Fractal Economies, Derek Beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics by grinding language through the mill of photocopiers, found material, collage, printmaking, frottage, and Letraset - creating a new language for the genre. These "Fractal Economies," or series of increasingly complex replications of forms through the repeated application of a fixed set of rules, challenge the status quo of poetry and the politics of language itself, which is, with respect to any human script yet deciphered, capitalist in its very origin. Here, letters are freed from their "normal" behavior, machines are let loose to create on their own, and the borders between poetry and artwork are blurred.