The Importance of Being Narratological
David CiccoriccoDave Ciccoricco responds to Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck.
The Exemptions of Beauty
William Smith WilsonWilliam Smith Wilson builds on his earlier ebr essay, "The End of Exemptions of Beauty," with this companion piece.
Peter Hare’s response to Lori Emerson
Peter HarePeter Hare responds to Lori Emerson's review of Walter Benn Michaels.
Writing Futures: Hardt and Negri’s Notation Politics
Aron PeaseAron Pease introduces this collection of essays by Linda Brigham, Caren Irr, William Wilson and Nick Spencer with a look at the multitude's programmability.
Networking the Multitude
Linda C BrighamLinda C Brigham complicates Hardt and Negri's case for network resistance.
Empire and the Commons
Caren IrrCaren Irr reframes the question of private property through fantastic narratives of the commons.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Irreducible Innovation
William Smith WilsonWilliam Smith Wilson injects the transcendentals of aesthetic illusions into Hardt and Negri's immanent materialism.
‘Is it Possible Not to Love Žižek?’ on Slavoj Žižek’s Missed Encounter with Deleuze
Hanjo BerressemHanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.
Putting the Brakes on the Žižek Machine
Eric Dean RasmussenEric Dean Rasmussen traces the contours of Hanjo Berressem's rigorous, bi-tempo reading of Organs without Bodies, which finds Žižek's philosophical buggering of Deleuze to be wanting.
What Would Žižek Do? Redeeming Christianity’s Perverse Core
Eric Dean RasmussenJokes play a fundamental role in Slavoj Žižek's philosophizing. Is Žižek joking when he extols the virtues of Christianity to the Left? Eric Dean Rasmussen analyzes Žižek's pro-Christian proselytizing as attacks on modes of PC-ness - political correctness and perverse Christianity - that sustain an undesirable neoliberalism.
The Machinic Multitude
Nicholas Spencer
Nick Spencer argues that the multitude is machinic, even without machines.
Sandy Baldwin’s response to Lori Emerson
Sandy BaldwinSandy Baldwin responds to Lori Emerson.
Chris Stroffolino’s response to Lori Emerson
Chris StroffolinoChris Stroffolino responds to Lori Emerson
Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing
Brian Kim Stefans
Now that the First Person essay collection is complete and the case has been made for computer games as a form of narrative, Brian Kim Stefans asks the fundamental questions - concerning what can be read as literature, and what really cannot.
Bass Resonance
John Cayley
1999 e-literature award winner John Cayley writes about Saul Bass of classic film title fame. A precursor to language arts innovators Jenny Holzer, Richard Kostelanetz, and Cayley himself, Bass may now be recognized as a poet in his own 'write,' important for a new generation of designwriters creating "graphic bodies of language," moving words and signifying images, in digital environments.