Following in the line of Cary Wolfe’s MusicSoundNoise thread (2001), Trace Reddell’s LitMixer (2001), Mark Amerika’s Sounds of the Digital Intelligencia (2007), and Reddell’s subsequent Sonic Contents (2006), the present gathering from Robert Cashin Ryan further explores the noise of culture and productive capacity of sound. Since its inception in 2000, the music/sound/noise thread on ebr has consistently explored the productive capacities of sound (in its myriad forms) as a theoretical and affective site for interpretation and critique. In this sense, the name of the thread effects a dual mov… continue

These essays, also an ebook, have not been written according to an Ulmerian formula. Their only common feature is the application of a structural language that eschews beginnings, middles and ends. Instead these essays prioritize the organization of different material by juxtaposition, analogy and thematic extension – an appropriate logic for an age contoured by recombinant media. These essays, also an ebook, have not been written according to an Ulmerian formula. Their only common feature is the application of a structural language that eschews beginnings, middles and ends. Instead these essa… continue

As I thread my way through ebr, I touch base with the artificial intelligentsia that my work circulates in. The artificial intelligentsia is an internetworked intelligence that consists of all the linked data being distributed in cyberspace at any given time, one that is powered by artistic- intellectual agents remixing the flow of contemporary thought. As I thread my way through ebr, I touch base with the artificial intelligentsia that my work circulates in. The artificial intelligentsia is an internetworked intelligence that consists of all the linked data being distributed in cyberspace at… continue

Everything that happens, happens now. The essays, narratives, and essay-narratives gathered under the thread title, Fictions Present, reaffirm the ‘presentist’ bias in electronic publishing and in ebr particularly: our non-periodical, continuous publication is designed to keep the archive current and to present critical writing not as an afterthought, but as an integral element in the creation of literary fictions. Everything that happens, happens now. The essays, narratives, and essay-narratives gathered under the thread title, Fictions Present, reaffirm the ‘presentist’ bias in electronic pu… continue

There has never been a ‘Best of the Electronic Book Review’ or a print collection. After ten full years of online publication, ebr has devised other ways of marking time, using techniques available in the same electronic media where the work first appeared. Here the editor presents an initial ‘Gathering’ of ebr essays, pulled from each of the journal’s threads to date. Read more here There has never been a ‘Best of the Electronic Book Review’ or a print collection. After ten full years of online publication, ebr has devised other ways of marking time, using techniques available in the same ele… continue