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 […]

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 […]

“We’ve always typed.” So writes the Toronto Research Group, a collective pseudonym for the Canadian poets bpNichol and Steve McCaffery, in their aspect as investigators into the mechanics of the more abstruse corners of experimental narrative. The description that they provide of their writing process is illuminating in a number of respects, so I’m going […]

In his introductory essay to TCR 2-50, guest editor Andrew Klobucar writes: “Given the arguments presented throughout this issue, the reader will no doubt agree that new information technologies, along with the variety of formats they inspire, have indeed prompted a “crisis” in writing, in the sense that such developments must invoke a formative and […]

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David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. It does not attempt to sentimentalize nor deconstruct these issues. Death is death; life is life. He defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or […]