| Sumario: | This article addresses Canadian poet bpNichol and Brazilian artist-poet Paulo Bruscky and their work with photocopiers and fax machines during the 1980s. I argue that Bruscky and bpNichol can help us extract the fax and photocopier from a critical reception distorted by the subsequent infrastructural transformations that brought us the Internet. Rather than spurring networked connectivity, bpNichol and Bruscky push poetry through the copier and the fax in order to say nothing, to convey no information, to produce no workplace output, while using the workplace's informational supports. In doing so, they gum the gears of the information infrastructures arising in tandem with late-twentieth-century capital.
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