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(A click as an unopened email is opened. A virtual curtain rises. The Barker stands alone at center stage, but we are aware of a larger editorial team working in the wings.) BARKER: Another month. Another issue. Another mailshot. (Darkness, before a hard, white spotlight pierces the gloom. The Barker stands in sharp relief.) BARKER: Data is power! Stephan Paur illuminates the issues surrounding the (in)formation of identities in Infopower and the Ideology of Extraction! (The lighting shifts, whites becoming a mix of greens and turquoises reminiscent of an affiliate’s branding. The Barker waits… continue

WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED [SUN/MON/TUES]DAY TO BRING YOU THIS MESSAGE Winter or summer, rain or shine, night or day, you can rely on the electronic book review to deliver cutting edge academia straight to your inbox! I’m TEGAN PYKE—ebr’s latest co-editor and PhD researcher in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen—and I’m here to give you the inside scoop! Join us this month for— MORE OFF CENTER! Are you a scholar interested in the interplay of creative practice and research? An academic lost in the limbo of invisible labor? A disaffected millennial looking for inspiration in… continue

Following last month’s essays about the impact of generative AI on digital writing come two articles that further address the evolving states of creativity in a rapidly changing digital world. Stuart Moulthrop’s review of Steve Tomasula’s Ascension explores the work’s cybernetic and apocalyptic dimensions. Moulthrop traces its subterranean, encyclopedic lineage through print fictions like Joyce’s Ulysses, Dos Passos’ U.S.A. trilogy, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, DeLillo’s Underworld, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth… continue

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