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Brent Cox is currently completing a PhD in Poetics at SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Program. He is the founder of the Topological Poetics Research Institute (TPRI, poeticsinstitute.com), co-founder of Ecopoetry Workshop (held at architect Ilaria Mazzoleni’s Nature, Art, Habitat Residency (NAHR) in Val Taleggio, Italy), and co-host of Buried Text (a podcast devoted to poetics). His dissertation focuses on what he calls “Infrastructuralist Writing,” a concept developed to name a tendency in 20th and 21st century poetry that braids what has been called “poetics in the expanded field” and “the materiality of the signifier” with contemporary thinking around the subject of infrastructure. In addition, he has been developing a theory of “Video Poetic Criticism,” an immanent argument for the value of video analysis of poetic texts. “Unthought Apparitions” is an example of such a video. He received a Race and Technology Grant from the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Media Archaeology Lab where research for this video was carried out, and he has recently presented work at University of Cambridge’s poetic thought conference, the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2022 Conference held in Lake Como, Italy, and he has work forthcoming in OEI, a Stockholm-based journal of experimental poetics.