ebr has long been an advocate of critical and creative pieces on/of eletronic literature – its ever-growing collection of writing includes work by the editors of the ELC (Strickland, Hayles, Montfort, and Rettberg) as well as work by contributors to the ELC (

Our treatment of words and letters as material objects is of particular concern to Walter Benn Michaels in The Shape of the Signifier, reviewed here by Lori Emerson.

Ted Pelton’s review of the 2006 &Now conference discusses the history of FC2 and how Tomasula picks up the thread of the novelistic in presumably stable discourse by choosing as his subject Alan Sokal’s infamous fraudulent essay on quantum gravity in Social Text. Ted Pelton’s review of the 2006 &Now conference discusses the history of FC2 and how Tomasula picks up the thread of the novelistic in presumably stable discourse by choosing as his subject Alan Sokal’s infamous fraudulent essay on quantum gravity in Social Text.

The tight connection between the form and content of contemporary “cybertexts” likewise, for Nick Montfort, becomes more clear when the one who pokes at the interface to see what will happen is being playful. The tight connection between the form and content of contemporary “cybertexts” likewise, for Nick Montfort, becomes more clear when the one who pokes at the interface to see what will happen is being playful.

Soren Pold persuasively puts it to us that by experimenting with formal constraints and how these constraints become thematic properties, we ourselves can discover how text is treated in our contemporary literary machines. Soren Pold persuasively puts it to us that by experimenting with formal constraints and how these constraints become thematic properties, we ourselves can discover how text is treated in our contemporary literary machines.