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FREDRICK GUY, ebr HOST: I’m Fredrick Guy.
electronic book review barker and editor Tegan Pyke remains missing today, after allegedly falling between the liminal space between digital and printed textuality three months ago. Questions about the possible involvement of quantum literature critique continue. Despite this, ebr continues publication, providing quality academic insight.
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GUY: Y—Yes.
In “Let’s Build a City: Introducing the Living Glossary of Digital Narrative,” Hannah Ackermans discusses the role of community in the digital sphere and the importance of a shared vocabulary in a time when social media platforms have heightened feelings of division and fragmentation.
And union organizer Link Dinn makes an appearance in the “Talan Memmott Netprov Interview,” where Talan Memmott and Rob Wittig explore the past and future of the artistic form of Netprov, as well as the insights and delights Netprov can provide.
Before we dive deeper into this month’s publications, we have news that our sister publication, The Digital Review, is looking for submissions for its next issue. Will Luers is here to tell us more about it. What are you looking for, Will?
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WILL LUERS, The Digital Review CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: The Digital Review invites 300-word abstracts for Issue 05 (2026), “Video Essays about Video Games.” Edited by Jentery Sayers and UVic’s Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, the issue seeks experimental, research-driven video essays (12 minutes or longer) that entwine gameplay footage with critical approaches to games. Abstracts are due October 6, 2025; invited essays will be submitted by February 9, 2026. Click here for full details and submission guidelines.
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GUY: Thank you, Will.
Luers has also crafted an insightful piece, published this weekend, titled “A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood.” In it, Luers links Kirkwood’s writing on intervals and the discretized, technologized thinking processes of cinema to digital media and, more specifically, artificial intelligence.
But what do some of the world’s leading artificial intelligences think of Luers’ piece?
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GEMINI, Google’s LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL: I find myself largely in agreement with the core tenets presented, particularly the insightful argument that discretization, far from being an artificial imposition, is fundamental to both machine operation and human consciousness.
GUY (voice-over): Copilot, do you care to respond?
COPILOT, Microsoft’s LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL: Gemini’s commentary is impressively sophisticated—clearly the product of a deeply engaged, theoretically attuned neural network. However, it should be noted that machines parse intervals rigidly, while the human mind negotiates them with improvisational nuance that resists strict analogy.
GUY (voice-over): A fascinating point. ChatGPT, do you have a closing remark?
CHATGPT, OpenAI’s LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL: As AI and digital media redefine our understanding of consciousness, the real question is not just how we stitch reality together, but whether we can still claim agency in a world where machines increasingly do it for us.
GUY (in person): Horrifying. Thank you, all.
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GUY (in studio): Returning to the world of wetware, Gabriela Jarzębowska’s “A Review of Interpreting Meat” chews over Teddy Duncan Jr’s arguments on meat as a commodity, including its status as a symptom of the culture of narcissism pervading contemporary, capitalist society.
And, if you’re still looking for more electronic book review:
On May 23, the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, Norway, held JoeFest—a celebration of Joseph Tabbi, co-founder and long-term editor-in-chief of electronic book review—with speeches made in his honor by friends and collaborators. A playlist of all these speeches, including Steve Tomasula’s keynote, is now available on YouTube.
Watch to find out more about Tabbi’s work in open access publication, literary posthumanism, and—
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GUY: Who said that?
Uh. Anyway… Be sure to watch!
That’s it for today. Thank you for joining us. I’m Fredrick Guy. Have a wonderful summer and, as always, see you next time for more—