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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