Category Archives: DigPo

You can read this if you want. I am, after all, writing it in a place where you can find it. But know that I am writing this for me, and for the lucky few people out there who knew this woman like I did. Who still know this woman. One of my favourite thingsContinue reading “Priscila Uppal’s Greatest Hits”

So, I think I am officially over my weekend-long love hangover following the launch on Thursday of Anarchists in the Academy. Honestly, you guys were the best friends and family I could have ever hoped for. This book took a really long time. A really long time. And you guys helped me through all of it:Continue reading “LAUNCH THANK YOUS”

Today, a poem as I think about John Ashbery, after a poem by Johanna Drucker. Name dropping and copious quotation are both good methods of being taken seriously as a woman in the avant-garde. That’s my advice.

My first scholarly manuscript, Anarchists in the Academy, is coming soon (May 2018). You can see the cover and read the catalog copy right here. AA is the heavily revised version of my doctoral thesis, so much of it had it’s birth right on this website, and now it’s going to printed into a silly little bookContinue reading “Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry”

This paper was written to be presented to the North American James Joyce Association’s 2017 Conference: Diasporic Joyce on the panel “Joycean Diaspores in Contemporary Poetry and Writing” (chaired by Sean Braune). The panel will be presented tomorrow, 22 June 2017, from 1:30-3:30pm Victoria College Room 212.  While much has been made of the collaborativeContinue reading “A Purely Financial Collaboration: Joyce as Computer in John Cage’s Writing Through Finnegans Wake”

This paper has been written in contribution to the ACQL Roundtable: “TrashCan: An Anti-Canon Manifesto,” presented as a part of the ACCUTE Congress, Sunday, 28 May, 2017.  My contribution to this anti-canon manifesto is a two-fold response to the general sidelining of new media poetics and digital literatures in CanLit. Canadian E-lit should, I wager,Continue reading “Oversharing: Canadian E-Lit and the Lyric Subject”

For a long time now, Canadian poets have been credited with making significant initiatory experiments in the fields of electronic literature and digital poetics, but there has been relatively little work done examining what constitutes a Canadian digital poetics, what kinds of writing constitute the genre, and what new reading practices are invited by digitalContinue reading “CFP Reminder: Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics”

The material of technology—the hardware—that each performer uses to engage with Code X becomes emblematic of the variant and variable reading practices provoked by the work. Obviously, there is a marked difference between Code X’s appearance in the Scratch exhibit and the way that I use it with my personal computer at home. But, thereContinue reading “On Mark Sutherland’s Code X (Part Two)”