I’ve been writing lately, here and on my own website, about what media studies offers us as a way to read a whole range of writing machines. And for some reason, it’s just a quick step from looking at the typewriter and typewriter poems to the ways in which poets have been hacking copy machines. [...]

Media studies is commonly associated with the study of digital media structures and related phenomena. But the more media theory I read (and lately I’ve been voraciously reading everything by Marshall McLuhan that’s outside of the well-worn Understanding Media) the more drawn I am to thinking through the defining effects of earlier analogue and digital [...]

Some time ago I wrote a post here on netpoetic about “Meaning as Making: From Dirty Concrete to Critical Code.” Since then, I have been working on turning this post-turned-conference-paper into an essay for a special issue of the Canadian journal Open Letter on Steve McCaffery. This piece now has the title “Marking as Meaning: [...]