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.

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.

Eduardo Kac writes for ebr on the attractions of the hologram as a malleable, fluid, and elastic medium for poetic expression.

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.

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.

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.

Another Foucauldian work, like Livingston’s concerned with performativity and self-reference in literary theory, is Rey Chow’s Age of the World Target, given the third degree by reviewer Ken Hirschkop. Read the review here. Another Foucauldian work, like Livingston’s concerned with performativity and self-reference in literary theory, is Rey Chow’s Age of the World Target, given the third degree by reviewer Ken Hirschkop. Read the review here.

Speaking of dispersed, technology’s redefinition of the contours of quotidian existence is also a subject of Swigart’s earlier story, Dispersion. Speaking of dispersed, technology’s redefinition of the contours of quotidian existence is also a subject of Swigart’s earlier story, Dispersion.

In his short story Dispersion, Swigart describes a quasi-supernatural phenomenon that evokes the link between biological and technological evolution.

Swigart discusses literal ecological fragility in his essay Not Just a River.