A similar deconstruction of Western individualism can be found in an essay by Babak Elahi in an ebr gathering of essays from the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Dubai (2017).

Coover and Rettberg’s conversation anticipates two essay gatherings that ebr has under way for publication early in 2019, namely: Essayism (edited by Jason Childs and Joseph Tabbi) and Natural Media (Lisa Swanstrom and Eric Rasmussen).

See the long-running ebr thread, titled Writing Under Constraint.

Forthcoming gatherings include a reprint of Sean Braune’s Phorontology (Punctum 2017) with serial commentary by Jhave Johnston; a gathering  on Natural Media co-organized by ebr co-editors Lisa Swanstrom and Eric Rasmussen; and a November 2018 conversation, also in development at Bergen, on the work of Karl Knausgaard.

In the ebr gathering on Corporate Fictions, Joseph Tabbi and Scott Rettberg cite the Manifold project initiated by Doug Armato at the University of Minnesota Press, as a model for Open Access academic publication.

See John Cayley’s ebr essay Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature, a version of which was reprinted in part for the Handbook of Electronic Literature (Bloomsbury 2018).

In Illegal Literature, Roh discusses Japanese dōjinshi – comics produced by fan communities that reuse the content and styles of popular manga. Dani Spinosa, in her ebr review of Roh’s book, writes that this communal producton “promotes active (rather than passive) consumption of the literary artefact…[and] encourages a non-hierarchical community of readers who support each other as fans as well as producers. 

See the ELD glossary entry for Photo-novel, which was inspired by Beatens’ research on the subject.

In New Zealand, “Pakeha” has referred to New Zealanders of European descent and, more recently, any non-Maori New Zealander. Its origins and etymology are a matter of some dispute, but it typically does not carry the same kind of derogatory connotation as other comparable tags for “white” residents one finds in other bi-cultural contexts. It even appears on official documents collecting demographic information.The Treaty of Waitangi is considered New Zealand’s founding document, not without controversy. The tribunal set up in 1975 was tasked with investigating historical breaches of the treaty… continue

The two journals have collaborated actively, for example in special issues titled The Electronic Muse (1995) and Cognitive Fictions: Cognition Against Narrative (2010). Another special, on Corporate Fictions, is planned for early 2017.