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We are excited this month to present three pieces that contribute to a richer understanding of the evolution and current state of electronic literature, and highlights the diversity of e-lit, including works outside the English language.  Roberta Iadevaia’s essay is a thought-provoking analysis of the origins of Italian electronic literature and its relationship to literary traditions and contemporary aesthetics. It begins by describing the recent surge in critical attention to Italian e-lit, reviewing differing approaches of two recent essays that aim to reconstruct the history of the ge… continue

Ahead of 2023, we wish you happy holidays with loved ones! This month, Patrick Lichty has written an in memoriam of a community member and artist, a friend to him as to many of us: the late Jeremy Hight. So not to take away from the significance of Lichty’s words and friendship with Hight, I will not add many words except to say: we at EBR remember Jeremy Hight fondly. His creative works will continue to be respected for the contributions they make to e-literature. * What is a humanities lab? How do we distinguish between a lab in the humanities and a lab in STEM–especially in various lab pro… continue

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