[…](at least in the mid-2010s) lent esteem toward a turn back to the traditional forms of literature Tomasula derides. Tomasula, again, admits that he made “no attempt to historicize the field,” preferring to offer “a snapshot” of this vibrant body of work (xviii). If I can arrogate the position Tomasula passed on, however, I would propose that these texts continue in the spirit of postmodern literary forms and show the continuing potency of the postmodern toolbox. We might then read the inclusion of Perelman, Ashberry, and Robert Coover as signals that they created a lineage that was not extinguished but […]
[…]us: literature, music, sciences, languages, indeed a daunting, but priceless heritage. Works Cited Tomasula, Steve and Farrell, Stephen. VAS, an Opera in Flatland University of Chicago Press, 2002. Caillois, Roger. Les Jeux et les hommes, Gallimard: Paris, 1958. Jullien, François. Les Transformations silencieuses, Grasset: Paris, […]
[…]but not in a way that implies co-authorship. KB: So not like, “VAS: An Opera In Flatland, by Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell”—but maybe use “with” instead of “and”? ST: That would be the right way to do it. KB: Who are contemporary writers you see as promising? ST: There are books that I think are fabulous. William Gass’ Willie Masters’Lonesome Wife is kind of a father of TOC. Love in a dead language, by Siegel. I love People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia. The visual element is there, but it’s different from what I do. KB: You obviously embrace […]
[…]a meditation on thermodynamics, myth and temporality. http://www.electronicbookreview.com/author/steve-tomasula Conducted by David (Jhave) Johnson, this interview was made possible by funding from NT2 Labs at Concordia and OBX Labs. The video is from a series of conservations with authors and digital arts practitioners that will be released (with French translations of the accompanying texts) by NT2 Labs. Steve Tomasula from David (Jhave) Johnston on […]
[…]Literature. New York: Routledge. Tarnawsky, Yuriy. 2011. “Not Just Text: An Interview with Steve Tomasula”, RAINTAXI Review of Books, Online edition, Spring. Tomasula, Steve. 2006. The Book of Portraiture. Tallahassee, FL: FC2. ———————–2010. “Emergence and Posthuman Narrative”. Flusser Studies 09. ———————–2011. “Electricians, Wig makers, and Staging the New Novel”. American Book Review, Vol 32 No 6, Sept-Oct. ———————–2012. “Information Design, Emergent Culture and Experimental Form in the Novel”. Flusser Studies 09. www.flusserstudies.net/pag/09/tomasula-emergence.pdf Zulaika, Joseba. 2009. Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Chicago & London: University of Chicago […]
[…]Vintage, 1989. Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. Viking, 1973. Tender Claws, PRY. 2014. Tomasula, Steve. TOC: a New-media Novel. University of Alabama Press, […]
[…]award for Online Game of the Year from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Steve Meretzky has been designing games since 1982. His games have included text adventures, graphic adventures, role-playing games, children’s games, and online casual games. In 1999, PC Gamer named Steve one of the industry’s twenty-five “Game Gods.” In March of 2005, the twentieth anniversary edition of his game The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which he co-authored with the late Douglas Adams, won an award for Online Game of the Year from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). He is […]
[…]Journal of 21st-Century Writings, vol. 8, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-21. Davidson, Laura, “Profile: Steve Roggenbuck.” Rhizome, 25 October 2013, https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/oct/25/artist-profile-steve-roggenbuck. Accessed 27 November 2019. de Haas, Ricarda. “Video Poetry as Re-Creation and Remediation of Oral Performance in the Work of Kgafela oa Magogodi and Chirikure Chirkure.” Africa Today, vol. 64, no. 4, 2018, pp. 74-90. Flores, Leonardo. “Third Generation Electronic Literature.” electronic book review, 7 April 2019, https://doi.org/10.7273/axyj-3574. Accessed 30 March 2021. Goldsmith, Kenneth. “If Walt Whitman Vlogged.” The New Yorker, 7 May 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/if-walt-whitman-vlogged. Accessed 25 November 2019. Hammond, Adam. Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction. Cambridge […]
[…]to pick up in the riPOSTe section in the spring [of 1998], when its design will be completed). Steve Tomasula Anne Burdick Joseph […]