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In this November issue we’re excited to present a book review, an essay, and an interview that explore how language can provoke, challenge, and dissent, and how these capacities are propelled by the affordances of digital media. In Aden Evens’ review of Broken Theory by new media artist and theorist Alan Sondheim, Evens explores Sondheim’s eclectic and stylistic meditations on the limits of philosophy, language, and code, expressed through the author’s hybrid art and research projects. In “United Forces of Meme in Spontaneous Netprov,” Anna Nacher explores the emergence and spread of the… continue

ebr is back after a summer break. We hope that your summers were fruitful, and that we may have had the pleasure of seeing some of you—in person, or as a virtual self–at the ELO 2022 conference in Como, Italy. ebr is delighted—and I am personally delighted—to introduce the launch of the newest issue of The Digital Review, Issue 02: (digital) performance. Edited by the incredible artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim, and co-edited by Kevin Sweet, Brad Gallagher, and Darija Medić, this issue features eight new multimodal and interactive works on (digital) performance as well as a “rediscovery” piece on St… continue

For this last month of 2021, ebr publishes a highly engaged riPOSTe by Deena Larsen and an exciting new essay by Bruce Clarke. In “Better with the Purpose In: or, the Focus of Writing to Reach All of Your Audience,” Deena Larsen responds in a riPOSTe to Hannah Ackerman’s essay on sound elements in electronic literature, “Better with the Sound On” (ebr October 2021). Larsen approaches Ackerman’s essay from the position of a “dual writer” in exposition and exploration, exploring the question of audience in e-lit, particularly the imagined audience as one that is able-bodied and who may have spec… continue

After a few months’ break, we are delighted to be back. For the first time, electronic book review and The Digital Review have collaborated to produce a special double issue on the theme of “Critical Making, Critical Design,” encompassing the rising areas of research-creation, critical making, critical design, practice-based research, and theory as practice. The works in this double issue pair digital works of art and design with critical and scholarly mediations. Please see the gathering in electronic book review. Please see The Digital Review’s issue as well. –Lai-Tze Fan Editor and Directo… continue

Special gathering: “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics” electronic book review is delighted to publish a special gathering this month called “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics,” edited by Dani Spinosa (ELO Fellow and ELD Managing Editor) and Lai-Tze Fan (ebr Editor and Director of Communications, and tbr Co-Editor). The objectives of this gathering are not only to highlight what has been accomplished in early digital poetics in the 1990s and early 2000s in Canada, but also to represent what new literary voices and digital experiments can be identified in Canadian scholarship and poetics, along… continue

Happy new year to you and yours, and all best wishes for 2021! This month at ebr, we are publishing the final contributions to Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual’s salient gathering “Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities.” To celebrate Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan’s newly released co-edited volume Electronic Literature As Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2021), we are re-printing its introduction! * ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2021 meeting of the ELO will be held virtually from May 24 — 28, hosted by Scott Rettberg at the University o… continue

This month we bring two insightful reviews: Sarah Whitcomb Laiola discusses Stephanie Strickland’s wonderfully intricate new poetic book Ringing the Changes (Counterpath Press, 2020) and Stuart Moulthrop follows Noah Wardrip-Fruin in his effort to urge game studies into a new direction (How Pac-Man East, MIT Press, 2020). Next Sunday, on November 8, three new [Frame]works Gathering essays will be published: “Documenting a Field: The Life and Afterlife of the ELMCIP Collaborative Research Project and Electronic Literature Knowledge Base” by Scott Rettberg, “Speculative Interfaces: How Electroni… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * Call for Proposals: The ELO is currently seeking to encourage the creation of new… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * ebr is delighted to announce that our Editorial Board has expanded to include four new Editors. I… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * In “Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking: The Disruptive Potential of Electronic Lite… continue