Providing insight into posthuman narrative strategies, Laura Shackleford analyses Steve Tomasula's novel Ascension (2022) for relational points of interest. Who or what is ascending who or what, and to what end?
In this review, Roger Whitson looks into the book Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Aberlardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka for insight into how the aesthetics of earth can become visible through media mapping.
Mary Shaver cautions budding writers against thinking that their biggest tragedies need to defined their work, and instead offers some alternative exercises to find interesting stories in the mundane.
This essay by Cristina Luli analyzes and compares Steve Tomasula's short story "A Farewell to Kilimanjaro" (1993) to Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), bringing to light the embeddedness of media ecology and the materiality of storytelling.
In literature, as in science, how humans emerge remains a continuous matter of engagement. In this article, Claudia Desblaches looks at the emerging scales of human representation in Tomasulas' The Atlas of Man.
Being a reader of Steve Tomasula for the past 30 years means following formally and materially innovative works of art and literature that contribute to a technological reshaping of the posthuman condition. Mary K. Holland, reminded in a waiting room in 2015 of Tomasula's impact on her own critical thinking, reflects on the eerie connections in 'fi about sci, not sci-fi'.
In this provocation, Maud Bougerol analyzes the teetering of boundaries in Steve Tomasula's "The Color of Flesh" (2015) where the reading experience lingers between linearity and non-linearity, and words and images transgress their usual thresholds.
In challenging the tools and materials that make up a narrative, Hanna Hadjadj interrogates the representational aspects of cultures and communities in Tomasula's short story "The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects" (2013).
Chris Funkhauser interviews musician, professor, digital and cross-disciplinary artist John Cayley on sound, poetry, coding languages, and the process of creation.
Different mediums explore our contemporary experience in alternative ways. The novel, through its many different perceptions and iterations, has a rich history in which David Banash places Tomasula's work as both timely and needed
In this perceptive review, Mehulkumar Desai examines Deena Larsen's Stone Moon throughout Larsen's creative journey, first as an unreleased work in Storyspace in the 90s to being released in Twine in 2025. Uniting cultural and archival praxis, Desai's review discusses how we might look at creativity in the technological continuum.
Kiera Obbard reviews Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram, a new collection of essays on the often maligned genre of Instapoetry.
With a first-hand experience of observing and participating in the inception of the internet and early machine writing, Steve Tomasula reflects on his and Joseph Tabbi's interconnected history within a new form of the sublime. Using Tabbi's collected works as a framework, Tomasula explores the posthuman experience of narrative architecture.
In this essay, Jon Ippolito discusses the meaning of "friction" in the context of higher education, via an exploration of what friction entails, what varieties are beneficial for students, and what aren't. In doing so, he creates the starting point for conversation in "Friction and Education: The Discussion".
In this conversation, provoked by Jon Ippolito's essay "Does Education Really Require the F-Word?", researcher-educators Jon Ippolito, Annette Vee, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, and Marc Watkins discuss the role of friction in higher education after the dawn of generative AI.