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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:College Literature Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 418 - 452
Autor principal: Kosick, Rebecca
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press Summer2026
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=196190828&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 196190828
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00933139
        COL
      jtl: College Literature
      issn: 00933139
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Summer2026
      vid: 53
      iid: 3
      pid: 226
      pub: Johns Hopkins University Press
    artinfo:
      ui: 196190828
      ppf: 418
      ppct: 34
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: bpNichol and Paulo Bruscky within/against Late-Twentieth-Century Information Infrastructures.
      aug:
        au: Kosick, Rebecca
      su:
        Poets
        Electronic equipment
        Canadian poetry
        Poetry (Literary form)
        Imaging systems
        20th century art
        Communication infrastructure
      sug:
        subj:
          Poets
          Electronic equipment
          Canadian poetry
          Poetry (Literary form)
          Imaging systems
          20th century art
          Communication infrastructure
      keyword:
        Brazilian art
        Brazilian poetry
        fax machine
        photocopier
      ab: 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.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Literary Criticism
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2026
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N