Timothy Melley’s “Paranoid Modernity” begins by considering how “everything is connected” has become a tag line for postmodern totalities in Pynchon and DeLillo. Timothy Melley’s “Paranoid Modernity” begins by considering how “everything is connected” has become a tag line for postmodern totalities in Pynchon and DeLillo.

In his review of Mark Fenster’s Conspiracy Theories for ebr, Melley argues that Fenster takes conspiracy theory seriously, regarding it as a “populist theory of power.” In his review of Mark Fenster’s Conspiracy Theories for ebr, Melley argues that Fenster takes conspiracy theory seriously, regarding it as a “populist theory of power.”

While this review concerns itself mostly with Stefans’ bookbound reflections on digital poetry, a range of cutting-edge ebr-authors such as John Cayley and John Zuern have written on Stefans’ digital poetry.

Stefans’ ebr essay “Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing” is likewise concerned with the issue of text and meaning and the reduced terms with which these are both approached in electronic writing.

Michael McDonough’s ebr review of Brian Kim Stefans’ Before Starting Over clearly positions Stefans as a post-language poet who extends Bernstein’s anti-absorptive poetics more deeply into the digital realm. Michael McDonough’s ebr review of Brian Kim Stefans’ Before Starting Over clearly positions Stefans as a post-language poet who extends Bernstein’s anti-absorptive poetics more deeply into the digital realm.