The Mappery of Abductive Poetics is a kind of workshop that tries to make sense and make art by traversing and mapping a range of cultural territories.
A mappery is a place where maps are made. In this case, mapping is construed in a generalized way, to go beyond geographical maps and include mathematical mapping, cognitive mapping and the methodology of concept mapping.
Mapping one thing onto another may involve abduction, the process discussed and developed by Charles Peirce, a key thinker in pragmatism and semiotics.
The poetics here are hugely inspired by Oulipo, l'Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature, a group of writers and mathematicians founded in Paris in 1960. Members include Raymond Queneau, François Le Lionnais, Claude Berge, Georges Perec, and Italo Calvino.
Other poets are of great interest too: Jacques Prévert, Pablo Neruda, Kenneth White and others.
Looming large at the Mappery are Rabelais, Alfred Jarry and Flann O'Brien.
The writings and inventions of Buckminster Fuller have been a key focus for decades, and have provoked both critical writings and poetical works in progress.
Philosophers of particular interest include Jacques Bouveresse, Daniel Dennett and Luciano Floridi,
Scientific orientations are mostly calibrated by a group of evolutionists, nominally based at the LSE, led by Tom Dickins, Andrew Wells, Max Steuer and Richard Webb, although nothing that goes on at MAP can be blamed on them.
There is also a deep vein of skepticism and secularism informing the musings of MAP.
Music is a core art, key players being Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Lol Coxhill, Paco de Lucia and hundreds of others, together with musicians of long-standing connection: Roberto Pla, Roland Perrin, Snowboy and Ben Mandelson.
Some of the output from MAP is published by Redriff Press.
Some of the output from MAP is performed by Trombone Poetry.
Some of it may end up here.
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