Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

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 […]

“‘the artist’s culture … cross circuited’”
“spill of speech (which chaotically can influence the real, material, environment) with its appearance of free labor,”
“a double-writing in which the boundary creates an imaginary and inchoate presence that will turn out to be the self, parceled out within the wall, dismembered, with the memory of a totality that comes […]

THAT “there’s no other to cyberspace, no air anywhere”
THAT “the body appears to breath, its organs duplicated everywhere, laminated across the constructed world”
THAT “the invisible as the defined excluded, ‘excluded’ from the field of visibility and ‘defined’ as excluded”
THAT “there’s a mass psychosis underway, as if being offline meant you’re somehow deficient, in education, worldliness, […]

In his TCR 2-50 essay, Interstitial, David Jhave Johnston describes his Poetic Method:
I am a poet
Or at least I call myself one
Even though I rarely write in verse
I am a digital poet
In naming files and displaying those phrase-like named structures
Concurrently with the images or sounds or films that they name
Poems emerge
interstitial
interstice
(suture) (itch)
mathematied
mathematizing
mathematamachine
Kevin Magee / […]

TCR 2-50 contributer David Jhave Johnston’s work 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. Johnston defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of […]

LexIcons investigate the construction of semantic relationships in modern culture using an ontologically driven text generation system for the construction of new domain-specific terminology. Such a tool derives partly from the wider cultural significance of dictionaries and lexicons in the construction of modern knowledge. The software constructs poetic dictionaries consistent with this history and yet […]

Global Telelanguage Resources develops innovative modes of writing via new techniques and concepts of language use consistent with a genealogy of poetics. Since Samuel Taylor Coleridge made his oft-cited distinction between the faculties of “imagination” and “fancy,” definition has emerges as an aesthetic practice in its own right.
By differentiating two terms once considered […]

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 […]