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 […]

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 […]

Laura U. Marks’s essay Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector follows important continuities in what at first may appear as disparate traditions in art history: classical Islamic art, European modernism and contemporary new media. Comparing several tendencies shared by both classical Islamic […]

In her essay, Feeds ans Streams: RSS Poetics, Kate Armstrong asks: “How might an RSS feed produce new art and digital literature?” The highly fluid flexible flux-able customizable nature of RSS changes the way we read, write, access and understand text. So much so that our notion of what a reader/writer is has […]