electropoetics
Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature
Søren Pold explores the ways in which Christophe Bruno's Iterature expands the notion of literary form and shows what happens when words are no longer only part of a language.
Electronic Literature circa WWW (and Before)
Chris Funkhouser reads the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1 as a crucial document, an effective reflection of literary expression and areas of textual exploration in digital form.
Three from The Gig: New Work By/About Maggie O’Sullivan, Allan Fisher, and Tom Raworth
Three recent poetry publications by Nate Dorward's press The Gig are reviewed by Greg Betts; these are not poems so much as environments outside of, perhaps astride, the contingencies of systems.
Saving the Past: Deleuze’s Proust and Signs
Stephen Hawkins engages with the "web of counterintuitive, paradoxical, contentious and yet important claims" that he identifies in Gilles Deleuze's Proust and Signs.
Illogic of Sense | The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix: Introduction
Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye introduce the collection of essays, appearing here in the electropoetics thread, from the Alt-x e-book The Illogic of Sense.
On Hip-Hop, A Rhapsody
Michael Jarrett practices an Ulmer-inspired heuretics to write about rap.
Diagrammatology
Rowan Wilken sets himself the challenge of theorizing the unrepresentable in relation to the architectural model of the diagram.
From Mystorian to Curmudgeon: Skulking Toward Finitude
Marcel O'Gorman offers a candid account of what it means to introduce the computer apparatus into teaching in the humanities.
The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done?
Jerome McGann addresses the so-called "Crisis in the Humanities" in the context of two of its most apparent symptoms: the digital transformation of our museums and archives, and the explicitly parallel "Crisis in Tenure and Publishing" that has more recently come to attention.
Critical Code Studies
Entering the 'cyberdebates' initiated by Nick Montfort, John Cayley, and Rita Raley, new media scholar Mark Marino proposes that we should analyze and explicate code as a text like any other, 'a sign system with its own rhetoric' and cultural embeddedness.