http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca a feed-reading of The Capilano Review Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/30/alternate-readings-the-in-this-issue-remix/ Here is a re-reading TCR 2-50 comprised of one question posed by each author listed in the order their essays appear in TCR 2-50: It is not unusual to find [Australian poet Komninos] Zervos’s term "crisis" frequently employed in critical comparisons of print to electronic modes of production. If the term ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/26/alternate-readings-questions/ In February 2007 The Capilano Review, a literary journal based in North Vancouver, B.C., published an issue dedicated to new writing and new technologies. TCR 2-50 “Artifice & Intelligence" was guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar and included essays by: Andrew Klobucar, Global Telelanguage Resources, Sandra Seekins, Kate Armstrong, David Jhave ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/24/alternate-readings-minimalist/ Join us on Saturday, May 24th at 7:30 pm at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, BC, to launch Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams a new work of electronic literature by Montreal-based fiction writer and web artist J.R. Carpenter. Many books were harmed in the making of this electronic literature ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/22/tributaries-text-fed-streams-vancouver-launch/ 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/21/ghost-writing-nary-a-tiff/ 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/20/a-fragile-contract/ 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/19/shifters-the-structure-of-typewritten-dictation/ 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/16/dictation-and-haunted-writing/ 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/15/authors-do-not-always-authorize/ 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 ... http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/05/14/an-ostensibly-straightforward-description-of-the-process-of-collaborative-typewriting/