Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

In his introductory essay to TCR 2-50, Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies, guest-editor Andrew Klobucar outlines the major themes covered in the issue. An annotated version of the “In this issue…” section of his essay functions as a reading tour through Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams:
Klobucar: Kate Armstrong tells us more about the […]

Here is a re-reading TCR 2-50 comprised of one question posed by each author listed in the order their essays appear in TCR 2-50:
It is not unusual to find [Australian poet Komninos] Zervos’s term “crisis” frequently employed in critical comparisons of print to electronic modes of production. If the term is warranted, the dilemma derives, […]

In February 2007 The Capilano Review, a literary journal based in North Vancouver, B.C., published an issue dedicated to new writing and new technologies. TCR 2-50 “Artifice & Intelligence” was guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar and included essays by: Andrew Klobucar, Global Telelanguage Resources, Sandra Seekins, Kate Armstrong, David Jhave Johnston, Laura U. Marks, Sharla […]

Join us on Saturday, May 24th at 7:30 pm at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, BC, to launch Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams a new work of electronic literature by Montreal-based fiction writer and web artist J.R. Carpenter.

Many books were harmed in the making of this electronic literature project. Over the past […]

What happens when there are (as there frequently are, and as the etymology of “amanuensis” suggests) inequities in the relationship? Foucault notes that all relationships are on some level agonistic – there are always imbalances of power, and there are always struggles, even between the best of friends.
In the descriptions of the Toronto Research […]

In his essay, Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group, Darren Wershler-Henry looks beyond the roles of the individuals - in this case bpNichol and Steve McCaffery - toward a fuller understanding of the nature and outcome of their collaboration:
Because my concern is not to determine with which subject the Toronto Research […]

From the relative beginnings of the typewriter, the same major elements appear in any typewriting assemblage. There is a dictator – the source of the words that are being typed. There is a typewriter – that is, an actual writing machine of some sort. And there is an amanuensis. As the Oxford English Dictionary notes, […]

In her discussion of the relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend and assistant, the writer Johann Peter Eckermann (the German Boswell), Avital Ronell develops a theory of dictation which can be expanded to describe several important aspects of the machinic assemblage I’m calling “typewriting.” While the overall tone and focus of Ronell’s […]

Toronto Research Group is a collective pseudonym for the Canadian poets bpNichol and Steve McCaffery. In his essay Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group, TCR 2-50 contributor Darren Wershler-Henry argues that the TRG is an author in the sense that Foucault describes in the essay “What Is An Author?” in Language, […]

Darren Wershler-Henry opens his essay Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group with an ostensibly straightforward description of the process of collaborative typewriting: Someone dictates; someone types. Sometimes they trade places. Sometimes the typist transcribes the dictation faithfully; sometimes the typist edits and emends the words as he types them. The compositional process […]