Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced his oft-cited distinction between the faculties of “imagination” and “fancy,” he not only constructed a new semantic context for the former term as a cognitive facet uniquely vital to all creative endeavours, he also set an interesting precedent in literary criticism, acknowledging the importance of definition as an aesthetic practice […]

TCR 2-50 contributors GLOBAL TELELANGUARE RESOURCES maintain a mandate to develop innovative modes of writing via new techniques and concepts of language use. Their most recent project is an independent set of writing tools for writers and language enthusiasts that allows for the literary enhancement and creative design of texts via digital technology.
Since 1972, […]

In her essay, Feeds ans Streams: RSS Poetics, Kate Armstrong asks: “How might an RSS feed produce new art and digital literature?” The highly fluid flexible flux-able customizable nature of RSS changes the way we read, write, access and understand text. So much so that our notion of what a reader/writer is has […]

When Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams curator Kate Armstrong first approached me about creating a new work of electronic literature based on the texts of TCR 2-50 the only criteria was that the work explore formal and functional properties of RSS. Was that something I was interested in? I hadn’t really thought about it […]

Streams are both literally and metaphorically the central image of this work. Streams of consciousness, and of data. Images of and references to rivers flow through the interface. Many of the texts I am inserting into the original twelve essays of TCR 2-50 refer to rivers and/or to writing. TCR 2-50 tackles […]

In this issue of The Capilano Review a selection of some of the foremost writers, thinkers and artists working today in the field of digital literature have contributed work that will be experimentally syndicated using RSS. The works are broken into discrete fragments and delivered in a never-ending iterative stream anyone who signs up. Thus […]

Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capilano Review is curated by TCR 2-50 contributer Kate Armstrong. Her essay - “Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics” - explores the cultural significance of an entirely new genre of writing – the RSS feed.
KATE ARMSTRONG is an artist and writer with interest in networks, distribution, and […]

In November 2006, Andrew Klobucar notes, barely a year after the popular debut of “YouTube,” the now ubiquitous electronic network for amateur video distribution, subscribers to a much older web service called the SUNY Buffalo Poetics List found the following message posted to their email. Under the subject heading “YouTube Poetry – the crisis in […]

In his essay, Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies Andrew Klobucar writes:
To understand writing as a mode of transliteration, “to designate,” in Derrida’s words, “the signifier of the signifier,” is to invoke automatically, however briefly, a crisis in cognition. Does not the very consideration of writing as verbal meaning or speech seem determined […]

In this issue of TCR, the relationship between technology and writing is explored both creatively and critically. Some of the featured work will be available only in electronic format, while other pieces will have an electronic and print version. The electronic version will feature additional attributes that propel it into an entirely new genre of […]