Definition 1a of the Oxford English Dictionary holds “Precious” as something “Of great moral, spiritual, or other non-material value; beloved, held in high esteem.” The emphasis on non-material is obviously my own, though my personal choice of precious surface reflects … Continue reading →

Inscription is a form of intervention, into which new machinery continues to interpose.  Ink is imposed on paper, while pens and keyboards intrude into the posture of hands.  Grooves are incised into phonograph records, while sound echoes in our ears.  … Continue reading →

Here’s my cryptic addition to this week’s signment re: gilt edge, etc. A riddle to what my material for the writing will be: “What has a spine, a face, a back, and thoughts; has tremendous weight, yet when dropped, isn’t … Continue reading →

Here’s something Foucault wrote (or said and then edited): Even when an individual has been accepted as an author, we must still ask whether everything that he wrote, said, or left behind is part of his work. The problem is … Continue reading →

What are our materials of reading, and what difference does it make? “People forget that a book or codex is a technology,” reminded ambient lit artist Tan Lin in a 2012 interview in the new media art publication Rhizome (so named after Deleuze and … Continue reading →

To get to my materials of writing, I have to draw a distinction in my writing itself. This distinction is crude, but it is honest. I distinguish between writing that matters and writing that doesn’t matter. (I didn’t necessarily know … Continue reading →

I write in stages. Each stage has a different set of materials and takes place in a slightly different orientation of the materials within my space, or takes place within a difference space entirely. These stages do not necessarily occur … Continue reading →

I write, as I said in class, both by hand and on computer.  When writing by hand, I usually use loose leaf paper, college ruled.  I prefer lately to use pen, I use Uni-Ball fine point rollerball pens in black … Continue reading →

In the computer game Civilization V, you start the game as the leader of one of many civilizations all positioned at the beginning of agriculture, and you have to lead this civilization throughout the industrial age and the modern era … Continue reading →

I am currently sitting in a coffee shop called Espresso a mano, which is located in the neighborhood of Lawrenceville, trying to write (or compose?) this reflection on the materiality of writing, or rather, the materials that inform what I … Continue reading →