N.H. Pritchard + the Transreal

Following the blogging I did accompanying my chapter and video on Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax Video Style, I will be blogging the developing of my thinking around the work of N.H. Pritchard, namely Pritchard’s concept of the transreal. This work is toward the production of a video for Experimental Writing in English (1945-2000) – The Anti Canon, an upcoming conference to take place at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium. Like my previous work on Brathwaite, this poetics research should be understood as an inextricable part of whatever “product” ends up available to the audience at the conference and beyond. In this way, a diffuse matrix radiating through time and space as my own work, your reading, along with the social/material technical online interface and its entire infrastructural identity comes to be part of the poem, however silent much of it remains.