From the year 1999: Philippe Bootz celebrates the 10-year anniversary of alire, an innovative digital journal. Translation by James Stevens.

Almost 20 years ago, Mark Marino’s Critical Code Studies manifesto in electronic book review called for scholars to explore the extra-functional significance of computer source code in a new field he called Critical Code Studies (Marino, 2006a)

This essay, for example, was updated and touched up in October 2024, four years after its initial publication. Like the present “marginal gloss,” these updates are dated and designated by our ebr editorial team as  part of an ongoing editorial practice. An historical intertext.

Check out Scott and Rod’s write up of Toxi•City in ebr from 2018.

For more about My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, see Will Luer’s interview with Mark Amerika or the review by David Thomas Henry Wright.

The team at the Center for Digital Narrative, including Jhave, are working on a different project: The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative. The Living Glossary is composed of two parts: AI-generated succinct definitions, and human-written explications. The glossary sits somewhere between culmination and revitalization of ReRites, a collaboration between “embodied human and disembodied algorithm.”

Steve Tomasula’s work has been written about more than he has written for ebr: Languages of Fear in Steve Tomasula’s VAS, an Opera in Flatland The Importance of Being Earnest in Flatland Pierre Menard with a Pipette: VAS and the Body of Text The Archeology of Representation: Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture Erroneous Assumptions: Steve Tomasula’s Ascension “You’ve never experienced a novel like this”: Time and Interaction when reading TOC

Robert Arellano’s tribute to George Landow on ebr.

From the year 1999: Joseph Tabbi lamenting the lack of recognition for Gaddis (and McElroy, who was the center of a gathering on ebr in 2004).

Joseph Tabbi, editor-in-chief of the electronicbookreview, published in 2015 the biography of William Gaddis.