See our laundry list of back and forths on AI: Thoughts on the Textpocalypse by Davin Heckman, a response to Matthew Kirschenbaum’s piece about the Textapocalypse in The Atlantic. In Response, Søren Bro Pold wrote his riPOSTe, Textpocalypse Now? and Davin Heckman re-riPOSted. In the meantime, John Cayley offered his own thoughts on AI and literature, which spurred a riPOSTe by Dougherty and the very first priPOSTe ever featured on ebr, written by Scott Rettberg.

The first shot was fired when Eskelinen declared “Hypertext is dead. Cybertext killed it” at the 1999 Digital Arts and Culture conference, which Hayles responded to in Cyber|literature and Multicourses: Rescuing Electronic Literature from Infanticide. The bitter custody battle between hypertext theory and cybertext over the burgeoning field of electronic litterature is now a matter of the past, although it got heated due to the provocations of Eskelinen, whose inflammatory prose in Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying (hopefully, it will be the first and last t… continue

Lori Emerson introduces a gathering of nineteen electro-poetic essays. This gathering brings together both critics and creators of electronic poetry; as is usually the case in ebr, the ‘electronic’ does not exclude, but helps us to reconfigure and revalue poetic works in print as well as define what works in digital environments

The Politics of Plasticity: Neoliberalism and the Digital Text An earlier draft of this paper appearing as a contribution to the Materialities of Text conference organized by Sas Mays and Peter Thoburn for the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture in 2011. I am especially grateful for the generous feedback offered by Sas Mays, Bruce Thoburn, Gary Hall, and Richard Burt.

See John Cayley’s Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature published in ebr in 2017.

The term Post-Digital was carried over into the title Bloomsbury collection, as a way of contextualizing the first two decades of ebr.  Eugenio Tisselli has an essay of his own, “The Heaviness of Light,” in the closing section of volume 2 of the collection.

Florian Cramer first introduced the term Post-Digital in his 2012 ebr essay

See Leonardo Flores’ essay, published in ebr, where he recognizes  “the need to account for the explosive growth and diversification of e-literary digital writing practices beyond what is practiced and studied by the ELO community.”

See George Landow’s ebr review of Jackson’s “actual” hypertext, Patchwork Girl.

A similar deconstruction of Western individualism can be found in an essay by Babak Elahi in an ebr gathering of essays from the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Dubai (2017).