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 […]

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 […]

In his introductory essay to the “Artifice & Intelligence” issue of The Capilano Review, guest editor Andrew Klobucar reflects upon ” several concerns circulating within the literary arts with respect to recent advances in electronic media formats.” If, as Klobucar argues, “that new information technologies, along with the variety of formats they inspire, have […]

In order to contextualize the work Global Telelanguage Resources is doing toward the creation of 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, it may be interesting to take another look at some of the early experiments in […]

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 […]

Poets may have to become advanced typesetters and computer programmers – technicians, polyglot in a variety of machinic dialects: HTML and Quark, PERL and Flash. Poets may have to learn the exotic jargon of scientific discourses just to make use of a socially relevant lexicon, and now that cybernetics has effectively discredited the romantic paradigm […]

Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams is a feed-reading of The Capilano Review 2-50 “Artifice & Intelligence,” guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar. In his opening essay “Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies” Klobucar outlines the relationships between technology and writing that are explored, both creatively and critically, by the contributing authors in this issue of TCR.
Andrew […]