Gloss on The Linguistic Cartography of Toilets and Ginger Ale
Lori Emerson
October 13, 2007
P:nth-child(10)
Soren Pold persuasively puts it to us that by experimenting with formal constraints and how these constraints become thematic properties, we ourselves can discover how text is treated in our contemporary literary machines. Soren Pold persuasively puts it to us that by experimenting with formal constraints and how these constraints become thematic properties, we ourselves can discover how text is treated in our contemporary literary machines.
Gloss on The Linguistic Cartography of Toilets and Ginger Ale
Lori Emerson
October 13, 2007
P:nth-child(1)
The ebr thread “writing under constraint” offers us a panoply of works that operate on or through constraint – Alan Sondheim, for example, in “Verse in Reverse” elaborates on how the more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions. The ebr thread “writing under constraint” offers us a panoply of works that operate on or through constraint – Alan Sondheim, for example, in “Verse in Reverse” elaborates on how the more strict the constraints, the more open, free, and plentiful the questions.
Gloss on Biopoetics; or, a Pilot Plan for a Concrete Poetry
Lori Emerson
October 13, 2007
P:nth-child(4)
Marjorie Perloff delves deeper in the materiality of concrete poetry in her ebr essay “Robert Creeley’s Radical Poetics”; she claims that for de Campos, the typographic constellation – in this case the morphing of the letters that compose pluvial into its cognate fluvial – has eliminated all traces of the poet’s ego so as to make a linguistic-visual construct.
Gloss on Biopoetics; or, a Pilot Plan for a Concrete Poetry
Lori Emerson
October 13, 2007
P:nth-child(1)
Stephanie Strickland’s ebr essay “Dali Clocks: Time Dimensions of Hypermedia” discusses Kac’s “Time Capsule” and how, without being bound to any machine, Kac is readable by a machine, wearing an electronic anklet that monitors him as much as any prisoner.
Gloss on Letters That Matter: The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
Stefanie Boese
October 6, 2007
P:nth-child(14)
Even though the collection lacks a formal timeline, Chris Funkhouser praises the possibility of tracing the evolution of digital textuality within the past two decades in his own review of ELC 1, also available on ebr.
Gloss on Electronic Literature circa WWW (and Before)
Stefanie Boese
October 6, 2007
P:nth-child(5)
In his review of the same collection, John Zuern points to the serious omission of the editors’ own contributions to electronic literature. The review is available here.
Gloss on Biopoetics; or, a Pilot Plan for a Concrete Poetry
Lori Emerson
October 13, 2007
P:nth-child(3)
Eduardo Kac writes for ebr on the attractions of the hologram as a malleable, fluid, and elastic medium for poetic expression.
Gloss on How to Do Words with Things
Stefanie Boese
October 6, 2007
P:nth-child(19)
Stephen Dougherty critiques the usefulness of systems theory in his review of Andrew McMurry’s Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature, calling instead for “a new sense of how epistemology and ontology can complement one another.” Read the complete review here. Stephen Dougherty critiques the usefulness of systems theory in his review of Andrew McMurry’s Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature, calling instead for “a new sense of how epistemology and ontology can complement one another.” Read the complete review here.
Gloss on Reading the Conflicting Reviews: The Naysayers Gerald Graff overlooked in Clueless in Academe
September 23, 2007
P:nth-child(14)
Marjorie Perloff speaks of the ‘End of Humanities’ as having become a sub-genre of academic writing. See Douglas Barbour’s review of Perloff here. Marjorie Perloff speaks of the ‘End of Humanities’ as having become a sub-genre of academic writing. See Douglas Barbour’s review of Perloff here.
Gloss on How to Think (with) Thinkertoys: Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1
Lori Emerson
October 23, 2007
P:nth-child(4)
In Christopher Funkhouser’s review of the ELC, he points out that the material gathered in this collection could hardly be more representative of what is happening in various digital genres of writing, or better presented. In Christopher Funkhouser’s review of the ELC, he points out that the material gathered in this collection could hardly be more representative of what is happening in various digital genres of writing, or better presented.