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Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature

Søren Pold explores the ways in which Christophe Bruno's Iterature expands the notion of literary form and shows what happens when words are no longer only part of a language.

Constrained Thinking: From Network to Membrane

Paul Harris examines the theoretical aspects of constrained thinking in the age of electronic textuality (in 2000 words, natch!)

The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism

Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.

Sleepless in Seattle

Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies.

Notable American Prose

Ted Pelton reviews Ben Marcus's novel that's not one.

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Marjorie Perloff has long advocated rereading the development of 20th century poetry through modernist experiments of the historic avant-garde – using works such as Mallarme’s as touchstones rather than as examples of literary aberrations.

‐ Lori Emerson

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All three ebr reviews (by Chris Funkhouser, Adalaide Morris, and John Zuern) on the Electronic Literature Collection touch on the ways in which e-writing builds on a rich tradition of bookbound, constraint-based writing.

‐ Lori Emerson

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