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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

This month, ebr is publishing three essays, one riPOSTe, and one book review. * Anna Nacher’s “Gardening E-Literature (or, how to effectively plant the seeds for future investigations on electronic literature)” offers a glimpse into “semi-peripheral avant-gardes” that are more open than other fields of digital culture to decolonization, and not restricted to the Anglophone world. Exploring Scott Rettberg’s Electronic Literature (2018), she describes “planting the seeds for future research on e-literature” as a call for an intertwined, mutually aware, and diverse understanding and inclusivity o… continue