The first shot was fired when Eskelinen declared “Hypertext is dead. Cybertext killed it” at the 1999 Digital Arts and Culture conference, which Hayles responded to in Cyber|literature and Multicourses: Rescuing Electronic Literature from Infanticide. The bitter custody battle between hypertext theory and cybertext over the burgeoning field of electronic litterature is now a matter of the past, although it got heated due to the provocations of Eskelinen, whose inflammatory prose in Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying (hopefully, it will be the first and last t… continue

Lori Emerson introduces a gathering of nineteen electro-poetic essays. This gathering brings together both critics and creators of electronic poetry; as is usually the case in ebr, the ‘electronic’ does not exclude, but helps us to reconfigure and revalue poetic works in print as well as define what works in digital environments

The Politics of Plasticity: Neoliberalism and the Digital Text An earlier draft of this paper appearing as a contribution to the Materialities of Text conference organized by Sas Mays and Peter Thoburn for the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture in 2011. I am especially grateful for the generous feedback offered by Sas Mays, Bruce Thoburn, Gary Hall, and Richard Burt.

See John Cayley’s Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature published in ebr in 2017.

The term Post-Digital was carried over into the title Bloomsbury collection, as a way of contextualizing the first two decades of ebr.  Eugenio Tisselli has an essay of his own, “The Heaviness of Light,” in the closing section of volume 2 of the collection.