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.