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 […]

“There was a flipping sound every thirty seconds from the vcr as it was continually trying to eject a videocassette which was not, in fact, in the machine. Through some glitch of artificial unintelligence the malfunctioning vcr kept trying to eject nothing for days. The tuner part of the unit was working fine so it […]

Another extension of the < body > of net art is its facilitation of growth and change over time according to what different people do with it collectively. For instance, a Wiki allows people to edit the pages of a website. Perhaps the most significant Wiki is wikipedia.org; for more Wikis, google the term. […]

abject
always or often enough too often the wanting that state
wanting to luxuriate in it / roll around in it / the sty
the wetness in the eyes
sweeps or range / half the time thinking you’re in a pentameter
Blake or Milton or whatever those names are starting not to matter
can’t read anymore Sun 2:39 PM
yesterday about […]

interstitial
interstice
(suture) (itch)
mathematied
mathematizing
mathematamachine
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 […]

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How to ‘turn out’ the return of the shape/specter
(“the instability of the imaginary, the uncanny,
ghosts always appearing on the periphery”)

Are you trying to make me believe I am unreal standing here absurdly on the green pavement?
Kafka
Is the virtual-real (‘seamless virtual interface and reality’)
trans-planting/placing (plating) the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real?
simulated exposures
the migration of consciousness
away from a […]

1. the “frozen inscription” and the “frame”
what is interpretation without suspicion
absorption: text as skin as sponge
abstraction of a sign is its sanitation
sanitized: assigning one meaning to the sign
2. who has interpreted if to interpret
is not to incorporate texts made under
the totalitarian inscription,
the “frozen inscription”
decoding
3. (not resemble) what was “reflectance
theory” or is the work that logic […]

“‘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, […]

“Language [as] an effect of neural
processing / learning, rather than a
ground or ur-grund” “fading-objects”
“translucencies that shatter” (at the touch)
(glance of the eye) your reading eye
‘my’ so-called reading eye
how it seizes on the ‘part-object’
geared toward foreclosure
the eye (my eye) its hatchet job
the violence of the seizures
among this book or that
“Writing may be made between the ear […]