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.

The idea that genres carry “ideological luggage” is perhaps most expansively explored in Fredric Jameson’s 1982 The Political Unconscious. Nick Spencer has reviewed Jameson’s more recent work in ebr’s Fictions Present thread.

A recent essay by Michaels on the films of Christopher Nolan has appeared in an electropoetics collection assembled by Lori Emerson.