A Place For Human Hands On the Keyboard
Rob Wittig
Rob Wittig, since composing this response, has been serving as the "street barker" who announces the appearance of new ebr content.
An Autopoietic Writing Machine?
Joseph Tabbi
Joseph Tabbi responds to posts from the journal design editor and publisher, using terms derived from an essay he was editing at the time. The audience database mentioned here was implemented for ebr11, wEBaRts, and further developed for the launch of End Construction! (Feb 2002)
New ebr Interface (2)
Mark Amerika
Publisher Mark Amerika's reaction to Burdick's proposal for ebr3.0...
An Interface in Lieu of An Introduction
Joseph Tabbi
A note on the origins and development of ebr version 3.0, End Construction!
New ebr Interface
Anne Burdick
In the fall of 1997, with the launch of ebr version 2.0, ebr editors Anne Burdick and Joseph Tabbi introduced a weaving metaphor to describe the journal interface. Three years later, Burdick sent in the following proposal for ebr 3.0, an entirely new version that enacts the metaphor using database technology.
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph TabbiJoseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection
What Lies Beneath?
Gene Kannenberg, Jr
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. finds the most well-publicized comic by one of America's most significant cartoonists to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but finally all too true to its title: the characters and situations in David Boring are in fact boring.
Re-Clearing the Ground: A Response to Linda Brigham
Mark Hansen
Mark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham's review of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing.
Responding to Kermani’s “Wak Auf.”
Skip Laplante
In her Sonic Spectrum survey, Elise Kermani invited readers to locate sounds on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. Here, Skip LaPlante responds with an autobiography in music, sound, and noise.
Accretive Dreams, Junk Narrativity, & Orphaned Excess in Moderation
Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen reviews hypertext writing, past and present, by Robert Arellano.
Further Notes From the Prison-House of Language
Linda C Brigham
Linda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.
A Poetics of the Link
Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker contributes to the ongoing debate on electropoetics and invites readers to post their own link types and descriptions.
Mindful of Multiplicity
Linda CarroliLinda Carroli reviews Michael Joyce on networked culture, whose emergence changes our ideas of change.
Stuttering Screams and Beastly Poetry
Allison HunterAllison Hunter writes on Douglas Kahn, a modern musicologist who takes in the noise of modern battle, recordings from the tops of trains and the interiors of coalmines, and the musicality of undigitized everyday noise.