see Writing Under Constraint
October 21, 2018
See the long-running ebr thread, titled Writing Under Constraint.
forthcoming gatherings
ebr Editor
October 7, 2018
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.
gloss on Tinkering with Media and Fiction
ebr Editor
September 1, 2018
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.
Cayley’s Aurature essay
ebr editors
August 5, 2018
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).
On “non-hierarchical communities of readers”
Editors
June 24, 2018
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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.
ELD Glossary: “Photo-novel”
Will Luers
June 24, 2018
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See the ELD glossary entry for Photo-novel, which was inspired by Beatens’ research on the subject.
Gloss by Editors on 17.03.05
Editors
March 5, 2017
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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
Postmodernism, EBR, and ABR
Joe Tabbi
December 1, 2016
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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.
Gloss by Matt Moraghan on 15.02.02
Matt Moraghan
February 2, 2015
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View Callus’s essay, “Cover to Cover” in the ebr archive.
Gloss by Stephanie Strickland and Marjorie Luesebrink on 14.12.09
Stephanie Strickland and Marjorie Luesebrink
December 9, 2014
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Luesebrink & Strickland: Patrick LeMieux is concerned that we should promote and honor research into important theoretical issues associated with language and computation, namely “multitemporal moments and multiscalar movements,” because we are positioned to see “what not only outpaces human consciousness but time and space itself.” What is the linguistic analogue of “something that is resolved conceptually but is unresolvable in practice”—could this not be a poetry generator for instance? […]See the full commentary