This is an abbreviated list of my shorter publications (see my CV for a more complete list):
Chapters in books: Peer-Reviewed
“The Archive in Motion.” Un-Archiving the Literary Event: CanLit Across Media. Ed. Jason Camlot and Catherine McLeod. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. Peer review and revisions completed. In press.
“Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing.” Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries. Ed. Gregory Betts and Christian Bök. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018. 253-74.
“Poetry Without Poets.” Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. Ed. Andrea Andersson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 211-20.
“Marvel and the Form of Motion Comics.” Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe. Ed. Matt Yockey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 187-206.
“Kenneth Goldsmith and Uncreative Improvisation.” Improvisation and Social Aesthetics. Ed. Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, Will Straw. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 160-80.
“The Ethically Incomplete Editor.” Editing As A Cultural Practice in Canada. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli and Dean Irvine. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016. 225-38.
“Marshall McLuhan: Vanishing Mediator.” Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson. Ed. Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, Kristine Smitka. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2016. 250-76.
“Introducing Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online.” Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. With Rosemary J. Coombe and Martin Zeilinger. 3-41.
“Unauthorized Comic Book Scanners.” Educational, Psychological, and Behavioral Considerations in Niche Online Communities. Ed. Vivek Ventakesh, Juan Carlos Castro, Jason Edward Lewis, Jason Wallin. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. 322-46. With Kalervo Sinervo and Shannon Tien.
“Exchange on Circulars.” New Media Poetics: Contexts, TechnoTexts, and Theories. Ed. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss. Cambridge: Leonardo Books/MIT Press, 2006. 73-94. With Brian Kim Stefans.
“OG Style: Ice T/Jacques Derrida.” Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End. Ed. Richard Dellamora. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. 241-61.
“Canadian “Pataphysics: Geognostic Interrogations of A Distant Somewhere.” Semiotext(e) Canadas. Ed. Jordan Zinovich. New York/Peterborough: Semiotext(e)/Marginal Editions, 1994. 66-78.
“Return from Without: Louis Riel and Liminal Space.” Gone to Croatan: Origins of American Dropout Culture. Ed. Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline. New York: Autonomedia/AK Press, 1993. 315-28.
Journal Articles: Peer-Reviewed
“Childhood’s End (or, We Have Never Been Modern, except in Minecraft).” Cultural Politics 14.3 (November 2018). 289-303. With Bart Simon.
“Theses On Discerning the Reading Series.” Amodern 4 (2015). With Jason Camlot.
“Guy Maddin’s The Night Mayor, Imaginary Media, and Contemporary Melodrama.” Criticism 56.4 (fall 2014): 677-94.
“A Network Archaeology of Unauthorized Comic Book Scans.” Amodern 2 (2013). <http://amodern.net/article/a-network-archaeology-of-unauthorized-comic-book-scans/>. 10,255 words. With Kalervo Sinervo and Shannon Tien.
“Marshall McLuhan and the Economies of Knowledge.” Canadian Journal of Communication 37.4 (fall 2012): 625-36.
“The Xenotext Experiment, So Far.” Canadian Journal of Communication 37.1 (spring 2012): 43-60. [local copy]
“News That Stays News: Marshall McLuhan and Media Poetics.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing 14.2 (fall 2011). [local copy]
“Digital Comics, Circulation, and the Importance of Being Eric Sluis.” Cinema Journal 50.3 (spring 2011): 127-34.
“The Locative, the Ambient, and the Hallucinatory in the Internet of Things.” Design and Culture 2.2 (July 2010): 199-216.
“Sonic Signage: [murmur], the Refrain and Territoriality.” Canadian Journal of Communication 33.3 (2008): 405-18. [local copy]
“Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group.” Capilano Review 2:50 (Fall 2006): 111-21.
“Vertical Excess: what fuckan theory and bill bissett’s Concrete Poetics.” Capilano Review ser. 2.23 (Fall 1997): 117-23.
Criticism and Book Reviews: Peer-Reviewed
Review of Kenneth Goldsmith’s American Trilogy. Postmodern Culture 19.1 (September 2009).
Review of Laura J. Murray and Samuel E. Trosow’s Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide. TOPIA 20 (2009): 254-56.
Review of Michael Strangelove’s Empire of Mind. Canadian Journal of Communication 33.1 (2008).
Review of Ian Monk’s Writings for the Oulipo. American Book Review 29.3 (March/April 2008): 12.
Encyclopedia Entries: Peer-Reviewed
“Conceptual Writing.” Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality. Ed. Lori Emerson, Benjamin Robertson, Marie-Laure Ryan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 89-90.
“Flarf.” Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality. Ed. Lori Emerson, Benjamin Robertson, Marie-Laure Ryan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 197-98.
Reports and White Papers
“Interdisciplinary Graduate Study in Concordia Arts and Sciences.” Prepared for Dr. Lisa Ostiguy, Deputy Provost, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2016. With Hilary Bergen.
“CPAF Snapshot: The Literary Culture We Deserve.” White Paper for the Canadian Public Arts Funders (CPAF) and the Canada Council for the Arts meeting on the changing landscape of the literary arts in Canada, Saskatoon, March 29-30, 2012.
“Lasting Change: Sustaining Digital Scholarship and Culture in Canada.” Report of the Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture Group. A Knowledge Synthesis on the Digital Economy funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Guelph, 2010. Di Brandt, Andrew Bretz, Susan Brown, Lynn Copeland, Patricia Demers, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Daniel Fischlin, Dean Irvine, Ashok Mathur, Hannah McGregor, Robyn Read, Susan Rudy, Stan Ruecker, Chantal Savoie, Ray Siemens, Stephen Slemon, Robin Sokoloski, Ron Walker, Darren Wershler, Ann Wilson.
“Electronic Publishing: Guide to Best Practices for Canadian Publishers.” Version 1.0. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, 2001. With Mark Surman. [local copy]
Chapters in Books
“P.o.E.M.M.: Bigger on the Inside.” P.o.E.M.M.: The Album. Jason Edward Lewis. Montreal: Obx Labs, 2015. 105-12. [local copy]
“Theory in the Vernacular: Johanna Drucker.” Toward. Some. Air: remarks on poetics of mad affect, militancy, feminism, demotic rhythms, emptying, intervention, reluctance, indigeneity, immediacy, lyric conceptualism, commons, pastoral margins, desire, ambivalence, disability, the digital, and other practices. Ed. Fred Wah and Amy De’Ath. Banff: Banff Centre Press, 2015. 251-58.
“Becoming Digital.” Toward. Some. Air: remarks on poetics of mad affect, militancy, feminism, demotic rhythms, emptying, intervention, reluctance, indigeneity, immediacy, lyric conceptualism, commons, pastoral margins, desire, ambivalence, disability, the digital, and other practices. Ed. Fred Wah and Amy De’Ath. Banff: Banff Centre Press, 2015. 231-49 (237-39). With J.R. Carpenter, Lori Emerson, David Jhave Johnson, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, Brian Kim Stefans, Stephanie Strickland.
“The Necessary Mess of Fair Dealing.” e-artexte: Proceedings of the Round Table = Actes de la table ronde. Montreal: Artextes Editions, 2014. [local copy]
“Queen Victoria’s Personal Spook, Psychic Legbreakers, Snakes and Catfood.” An Interview with William Gibson and Tom Maddox. Conversations with William Gibson. Ed. Patrick A. Smith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. 57-71.
“Conceptual Writing as Fanfiction.” Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World. Ed. Anne Jamison. Dallas: Smartpop, 2013. 363-71.
“Afterword: Title of Essay in Plain Type.” Nick Thurston, Of the Subcontract, or, Principles of Poetic Right. York: Information as Material, 2013. 133-41.
“OTHERSPACE: Martian Ty/opography.” DRUCKWORKS 1972-2012. Ed. Jessica Cochran. Chicago: Epicenter Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, 2012. 78-81.
“Cultural Ownership, Copyright, and Intellectual Property.” Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks. Ed. Will Straw, Sandra Gabriele, Ira Wagman. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2011. 173-96.
“Treatise On Style — Louis Aragon.” Lost Classics, ed. Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000. 290-94.
Journal Articles
“Notes Toward A Philology of Modified Video Game Consoles.” Thresholds 2: Traces. (spring 2018). [local copy]
“Barbara Godard vs the Ethically Incomplete Intellectual.” Open Letter 14th ser. 6 (summer 2011). 108-21.
“The Poet’s Stave and Bar.” Rampike 15.1 (2007): 30-34.
“Not An Especially Bright Dog.” BRICK 76 (Winter 2005): 104-08.
“Uncreative is the New Creative: Kenneth Goldsmith Not Typing.” Open Letter 12th ser. 7 (Fall 2005): 152-59.
“The Trouble With Grad School: A Found Critique.” Open Letter 10th ser. 5 (Spring 1999): 95.
“Argument for A Secular Martyrology.” Open Letter 10th ser. 4 (Fall 1998): 37-47.
“NICHOLODEON: Epitaph.” Open Letter 9th ser. 8 (Spring 1997): 99-114.
“Devour More Prime Meat Blindly: The ‘Pataphysics of the Keyboard.” Open Letter 9th ser. 7 (Winter 1997). Millennial ‘Pataphysics issue. 64-81.
“Concatenation Hemorrhaging: Framing John Riddell.” Open Letter 8th ser. 8 (Winter 1994). Toronto Since Then (part 1), ed. Clint Burnham, Lance la Rocque, Lisa Narbeshuber. 117-27.
“The (W)Hole in the Middle: The Metaphysics of Presence in the Criticism of Robert Kroetsch.” Open Letter 8th ser. 3 (Spring 1992): 58-75.
Magazine Articles
“Alienated 19: On Beyond Zed.” Matrix 92 (spring 2012): 59-60.
“Alienated 18.5: XLIIS-90.” Matrix 91 (winter 2011): 40-41.
“Alienated 18: Fragments on Findables.” Matrix 90 (fall 2011): 56-57.
“Alienated 16: Antennae.” Matrix 88 (winter 2011): 52-53.
“Alienated 15: Finding Bern Porter.” Matrix 87 (fall 2010): 54-55.
“Alienated 14: Our Own Devices.” Matrix 84 (fall 2009): 50-51.
“Alienated 13: Zero Punctuation.” Matrix 83 (summer 2009): 50-51.
“Alienated 12: Game Face.” Matrix 82 (spring 2009): 50-51.
“Alienated 11: Blinded with Aperture Science.” Matrix 81 (fall 2008): 46-47.
“Alienated 9: Zombie Parables. ” Matrix 79 (spring 2008): 52-53.
“Alienated 8: Dokaka – Air Guitar Jordan. ” Matrix 78 (fall 2007): 46-47.
“Alienated 7: Construction Time Again.” Matrix 77 (summer 2007): 54-55.
“Alienated 6: Welcome to Uranus. ” Matrix 76 (spring 2007): 36-37.
“Alienated 5: Playing with Dolls.” Matrix 75 (fall 2006): 3.
“Alienated 4: New Voyages. ” Matrix 74 (summer 2006): 2-3.
“Alienated 2: You Whores.” Matrix 72 (fall 2005): 8-9.
“Alienated 1: under difficulties semi colon. ” Matrix 71 (summer 2005): 6-7.
“Writers of the World, Unclench.” THIS 37.2 (September/October 2003): 28-32.
Criticism and Book Reviews
“Picky, Picky, Oh So Picky …” Review of The Toothpick: Culture and Technology, Henry Petroski. The Globe and Mail, Janary 12, 2008.
“Trickledown Wikinomics.” Quill & Quire, March 2007. 3. Review of Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams. Quill & Quire, March 2007.
“Cyclops Revolution” A Review of 4 poetry CDs from Cyclops Press. Books in Canada 28.4 (May 1999): 25-26.
“Minimal Swerve.” A Review of Steve McCaffery’s The Cheat of Words. Books in Canada 26.2 (March 1997): 18.
“Missing Mass: Christopher Dewdney on Science Fiction.” Prairie Fire 15.2 (Summer 1994): 220-28.
“Under the Radar: Five New Poets, Six New Books.” Quarry 42.3 (1993): 123-38.
Interviews
“‘Strangled by an Intestine’: An Interview with Guy Maddin.” Virus 23 $ [third issue] (Spring 1992): 11-14.
“Turbulent Ironies: an Interview with Jack Womack.” Virus 23 $ [third issue] (Spring 1992): 45-49.
“Queen Victoria’s Personal Spook, Psychic Legbreakers, Snakes and Catfood.” An Interview with William Gibson and Tom Maddox. Virus 23 0 (Fall 1989): 28-36.
