bpNichol and Paulo Bruscky within/against Late-Twentieth-Century Information Infrastructures.
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 infrastructura...
| Publicado en: | College Literature Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 418 - 452 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Summer2026
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