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December 2021: Accessibility and audience by Deena Larsen; neocybernetic systems theory by Bruce Clarke
For this last month of 2021, ebr publishes a highly engaged riPOSTe by Deena Larsen and an exciting new essay by Bruce Clarke. In “Better with the Purpose In: or, the Focus of Writing to Reach All of Your Audience,” Deena Larsen responds in a riPOSTe to Hannah Ackerman’s essay on sound elements in electronic literature, “Better with the Sound On” (ebr October 2021). Larsen approaches Ackerman’s essay from the position of a “dual writer” in exposition and exploration, exploring the question of audience in e-lit, particularly the imagined audience as one that is able-bodied and who may have spec… continue
September 2021: Critical Making, Critical Design
After a few months’ break, we are delighted to be back. For the first time, electronic book review and The Digital Review have collaborated to produce a special double issue on the theme of “Critical Making, Critical Design,” encompassing the rising areas of research-creation, critical making, critical design, practice-based research, and theory as practice. The works in this double issue pair digital works of art and design with critical and scholarly mediations. Please see the gathering in electronic book review. Please see The Digital Review’s issue as well. –Lai-Tze Fan Editor and Directo… continue
February 2021: “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics” special gathering
Special gathering: “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics” electronic book review is delighted to publish a special gathering this month called “Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics,” edited by Dani Spinosa (ELO Fellow and ELD Managing Editor) and Lai-Tze Fan (ebr Editor and Director of Communications, and tbr Co-Editor). The objectives of this gathering are not only to highlight what has been accomplished in early digital poetics in the 1990s and early 2000s in Canada, but also to represent what new literary voices and digital experiments can be identified in Canadian scholarship and poetics, along… continue
January 2021: e-lit in the digital humanities, ELO 2021, A Toast to Flash
Happy new year to you and yours, and all best wishes for 2021! This month at ebr, we are publishing the final contributions to Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual’s salient gathering “Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities.” To celebrate Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan’s newly released co-edited volume Electronic Literature As Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2021), we are re-printing its introduction! * ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2021 meeting of the ELO will be held virtually from May 24 — 28, hosted by Scott Rettberg at the University o… continue
November 2020: “poetics of juxtaposition”; what do we do with games and what they do to us
This month we bring two insightful reviews: Sarah Whitcomb Laiola discusses Stephanie Strickland’s wonderfully intricate new poetic book Ringing the Changes (Counterpath Press, 2020) and Stuart Moulthrop follows Noah Wardrip-Fruin in his effort to urge game studies into a new direction (How Pac-Man East, MIT Press, 2020). Next Sunday, on November 8, three new [Frame]works Gathering essays will be published: “Documenting a Field: The Life and Afterlife of the ELMCIP Collaborative Research Project and Electronic Literature Knowledge Base” by Scott Rettberg, “Speculative Interfaces: How Electroni… continue
October 2020: Frameworks Gathering part III
“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * Call for Proposals: The ELO is currently seeking to encourage the creation of new… continue
September 2020: Frameworks Gathering part II
“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * ebr is delighted to announce that our Editorial Board has expanded to include four new Editors. I… continue
August 2020: Special gathering of “Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities”
“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * In “Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking: The Disruptive Potential of Electronic Lite… continue
July 2020: E-Lit as a Garden; Third Generation E-Lit as Art; Lackey’s Biofiction; and Vanderhaeghe’s Charøgnards
This month, ebr is publishing three essays, one riPOSTe, and one book review. * Anna Nacher’s “Gardening E-Literature (or, how to effectively plant the seeds for future investigations on electronic literature)” offers a glimpse into “semi-peripheral avant-gardes” that are more open than other fields of digital culture to decolonization, and not restricted to the Anglophone world. Exploring Scott Rettberg’s Electronic Literature (2018), she describes “planting the seeds for future research on e-literature” as a call for an intertwined, mutually aware, and diverse understanding and inclusivity o… continue
June 2020: Launch of The Digital Review (TDR); CFP “Critical Making, Critical Design”; essays on Joe Brainard and Charles Bernstein
On Sunday, electronic book review and The Digital Review chose to postpone our launch of the inaugural issue of tdr until today, Tuesday, June 9, out of respect for George Floyd’s memorial service this weekend and in support of related activities on Monday. In alignment with the ELO Board of Directors, we stand in solidarity with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. * We would like to announce the launch of our sibling publication, The Digital Review, led by Will Luers and Joseph Tabbi. Please check out our inaugural issue, “Digital Essayism,” for born-digital essays and works by J.R. Carp… continue