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.

Bernstein continues on with this characteristic political critique in his exploration of speed as a morally-coded concept in his ebr essay “Speed the Movie or Speed the Brand Name or Aren’t You the Kind that Tells: My Sentimental Journey through Future Shock and Present Static Electricity. Version 19.84.” Bernstein continues on with this characteristic political critique in his exploration of speed as a morally-coded concept in his ebr essay “Speed the Movie or Speed the Brand Name or Aren’t You the Kind that Tells: My Sentimental Journey through Future Shock and Present Static Electricity. Ve… continue

Walter Benn Michaels’s The Shape of the Signifier, to which Melley is referring, was the subject of a review for ebr by Lori Emerson, which elicited several ripostes. Walter Benn Michaels’s The Shape of the Signifier, to which Melley is referring, was the subject of a review for ebr by Lori Emerson, which elicited several ripostes.

Davis Schneiderman intervenes in the innovation vs. crowd-pleasing debate via Jonathan Franzen’s attack on William Gaddis and Ben Marcus’s subsequent response.