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This month, we have an essay from Bruce Clarke entitled “Margulis, Autopoiesis, Gaia,” in which Clarke recounts his own process of critically and pedagogically working with the concept of “gaia” (the relations of things, as they exist on our planet, in relation the sun) through scientific discourse. In Lynn Margulis’s work What is Life? and Symbiotic Planet, Clarke comes to the realization that “if Gaia is a system, then Gaia theory is a form of systems theory” that can also articulate autopoietic or self-producing systems. Embracing approaches to autopoiesis, Clarke describes the expansi… continue

As you may notice, we have a new design for the ebr newsletter! I’d like to extend special thanks to our Managing Editor Will Luers for all the hard work that he put into developing this new template, which will offer our readers a more concise and visually organized update of our monthly issues. (If you are subscribed and have not received the June newsletter, it may have been blocked due to our recent changes. Please subscribe again with your preferred email.) Editors at ebr are currently developing a new biannual theme-based journal based on the born-digital essay. Please contact Will Luers… continue

​Over​ the past two months, ebr has had the pleasure to publish two of the keynotes, an essay, and a response that emerged from the 2018 meeting of the ELO in Montréal, “Mind the Gap!” These efforts represent discussions that have continued around platforms and non-platforms for publishing, engaging in, and thinking through e-lit—discussions that ebr is happy to foster and share. In this spirit, we actively encourage our readers to write their own riPOSTes (thoughtful responses) to any or all of the issues raised in the essays; if you have an idea, write to us and let’… continue

If you attended ELO 2018 in Montréal, then you may have heard of Leo Flores’s notion of “third generation e-lit,” the subject of his paper that year and the talk of the conference. ebr is delighted to publish this work that imagines a new way of understanding the history of electronic literature. And if you attended ELO 2017 in Porto, then you may remember Matthew Kirschenbaum’s keynote “ELO and the Electric Light Orchestra: Lessons for Electronic Literature from Prog Rock,” in which Kirschenbaum proposed the notion of e-literature’s “#1 hit.” This month, we publish Kathi Inman Beren… continue

ELO is currently expanding its scholarly activity with the appointment of five graduate and early career Research Fellows, offering a $500 USD stipend and a one year membership to ELO. Please apply by April 1, 2019. More information can be found here. This month in our publications, Manuel Portela reviews Johanna Drucker’s The General Theory of Social Relativity (2018, The Elephants), praising its negotiation of social theory, artistic practice, and critical thought as a collective “manifesto for a new poetics of the social.” Continuing from ebr’s “Arabic e-lit” series… continue