For this issue of Textbase, we worked collaboratively in establishing a working methodology of chance processes. Each writer provided a raw text for the project. Pieces of the raw text were numbered one to six, creating a series of fragments. The collective fragments were then mixed together. Then we employed a chance process whereby each writer took a turn rolling a dice. On rolling a six they could then roll again to determine how many fragments they would separate from the mix. The fragments were placed in an order which became the layout of the journal.

 In the first two issues of the journal we began to break down the concept of authorship by taking away the name from each person’s text. With this issue we are taking it a step further, not only taking away names but also the unity of each individual writer’s text. This issue constitutes a further surrender of each writer’s text to a process beyond them. Besides serving to eliminate mastery, this method also offers an alternative means of communication between writers. Part of the chance process was the bringing together of individuals and individual texts in a new way. The varying lengths, rhythms, styles, content and intensities of the raw fragments interact and change in their new context, at once resonating its individuality while at the same time all are amalgamated into the "voice of chance".

In the late twentieth century, the West is more and more obsessed with control and order. Fear of the unknown, fear of the loss of control, help structure oppressive rational systems, a desperate attempt to suppress chance. Rather than using words for utilitarian ends with a narrow range of meanings to control and order the world, chance processes offer the possibility of infinite contexts, connections and meanings. Community must be created.