Notes on Digital Nesting (A Poetics of Evolutionary Form)

BACHELARD’S POETICS OF SPACE articulates the need, beyond Bachelard’s

own scientifi c rationalism, for a discourse of poetic imagination and of the

onset and affectivity of the creative ‘image’. His concern is less to catalogue

or even describe spatial experience than to develop a discourse that might

be adequate to account for the instigation of the creative impulse and of the

power of the resultant poetic form. For Bachelard felt that the philosophical

tradition he had hitherto sponsored – that of an essentially positivist, scien-

tifi c rationalism – was inadequate to comprehend, much less propitiate, the

essential creative impulse to a changed poetic.