The article analyzes the poetic writing strategies in new media. The characteristic of the project of the modern poet V. Bannikov in the context of
a surrealist heritage is proposed. Unlike modern surrealist groups, Bannikov offers an accelerationist version of interaction with the media environment. Recognizing after the surrealists that the media is a means of mass demoralization and control, the poet by his practice only enhances the informational, sexual, and actually poetic overabundance. However, the accelerationist logic, according to which the acceleration of the processes of the existing order will lead to a crisis and the collapse of this order, at some point leads the Bannikov project to a new utopia, and possibly to the third stage of the development of surrealism (after the first, classical, and second stages of 1960—70s). At this stage, the acceleration of desire, the increase in the mediation of subjectivity, the overproduction of the poetic does not contradict the ideas of imagination and miracle. The specifics of Bannikov’s accelerated poetic project is demonstrated through a comparison with the related poetics of A. Cherkasov, who also has a poetic and stylistic mimicry with a steady tendency to the so-called ‘found poetry’, but who chooses a way to slow down rather than accelerate. In the face of a slowdown in speech, Cherkasov becomes more likely to realize a procrastination riot against the surrounding information overload and a dictate of effectiveness. But this riot is aimed at detecting various failures of reality, so the figure of procrastination in the philosophical dimension begins to coincide with the figure of acceleration.
Key words: surrealist code, contemporary Russian poetry, media, Bannikov, Cherkasov, distant reading, found poetry.
Reference to article:
Gorelov O. S. Accelerationist and proscrinator strategies of poetic statement: accelerating and slowing the media // Ivanovo State University Bulletin. Series «The Humanities». 2020. No.2. P. 5-14.