Andrei Sen-Senkov and the Visual Poetics of the Global Commonplace

Abstract

This article considers the visual poetics of the prominent contemporary Russian poet and poetry translator Andrei Sen-Senkov whose work is examined through the Deleuzian lens as a prime example of rhizomatic poetry. Senkov’s poetics is that of the commonplace: working with cultural cliches, and primarily visual material, it embeds very private concerns within a global matrix, with astounding and often theoretically challenging results.

Keywords

• Sen-Senkov A.
• Deleuze G.
• visual poetry
• Magritte R.
• rhizome
• global poetics