Besides a recent bother I had knocking around about whether binary code is rhetorical or not, I’ve also been thinking about divination, natural religion, and how to read the world. Or, thought another way: how the world communicates (in a … Continue reading
Undertaking this signment, I wanted to think about what surface or material would define my act of writing, both in terms of what I wrote and how. I ended up enacting and then writing this recipe. Recipe for One (1) … Continue reading
I made you guys a map: But to read it, you’ll have to look at this link: http://postimg.org/image/y4qdqt4ol/full/ because, for reasons I don’t fully understand, I made the writing so small you could see it, but not understand it unless … Continue reading
My original plan was to construct an encaustic collage commenting on wax tablets, ear candling, beeswax, etc. As I began to to prepare my wax-and-damar medium, I realized my canvases had gone missing — I had no solid surface. As … Continue reading
In her introduction to the facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems, The Gorgeous Nothings, Jen Bervin suggests that Dickinson’s collection of poems written on reused envelopes “convey[s] a sense of New England thrift and her relationship to the larger … Continue reading
“Any printed book is, as a matter of fact, both the product of one complex set of social and technological processes and also the starting point for another.” -Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book “Hermeneutic Code…all those units … Continue reading
I’ve been a redditor (don’t do it!) for awhile now. For a long time, I enjoyed the site for its endless cat pictures, silly memes, and sometimes-funny comment threads. About a year ago, I did a massive overhaul of my … Continue reading
I was really stuck on what to do this week without replicating prior poetic projects I’ve done in different contexts (book manipulation, book making, etc.), but then it came to me… literally. In the mail. My materials are self-evident: West … Continue reading
For this signment I kept thinking what the hardest thing to corral would’ve been. Blood? Large masses of bodies? Insects? The first is too messy. The second too surly. The third too unruly and creepycrawly. I remembered that the point … Continue reading
In response to our recent discussion about the materiality of things like: Our emails. Our email drafts. Our deleted emails. The words we type into Google search bars or Facebook status updates. Here are two news stories worth checking out, … Continue reading