If you attended ELO 2018 in Montréal, then you may have heard of Leo Flores’s notion of “third generation e-lit,” the subject of his paper that year and the talk of the conference. ebr is delighted to publish this work that imagines a new way of understanding the history of electronic literature.
ELO is currently expanding its scholarly activity with the appointment of five graduate and early career Research Fellows, offering a $500 USD stipend and a one year membership to ELO. Please apply by April 1, 2019. More information can be found here.
Interested in offering your two cents on an ebr essay, riPOSTe, review? We have added a new “gloss” feature at the bottom of every page, allowing readers to submit a short gloss to the sidebar of our publications and to invite new riPOSTes. We’d love to hear what you have to say!
This December, ebr has eight publications to share!
Resuming from last month, ebr will continue to publish texts that reflect upon the politics of the metainterface, as well as cultural practices and works that have emerged in response, starting with last month’s re-publication of a chapter of Christian Ulrik Anderson and Søren Bro Pold’s The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds (MIT 2018). This month, we feature a discussion from Rod Coover and Scott Rettberg on their project Toxi•City: A Climate Change Narrative, a narrative film that combines fictional and nonfictional stories of people affected by rising sea levels and recent storms in America’s North Atlantic Coast.
This month’s publication initiates an exciting 4-part assemblage—one of a series initiated with ebr version 7.0, on the topic of “metainterfaces,” a term from Christian Ulrik Anderson and Søren Bro Pold’s new text The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities and Clouds (MIT 2018). Over several months, ebr will publish texts that reflect upon the politics of the metainterface, as well as cultural practices and works that have emerged in response.
The publications of September are preceded with several exciting announcements.
Welcome to version 7.0 of the electronic book review. The changes that have taken place have been in motion for many months, and we at ebr would like to extend our gratitude to the electronic literature community (the ELO as well as unique members and groups) for their support and collaboration in launching our new and improved version. We built 7.0 in the particular hope that ebr will offer a more engaged and dynamic platform through which to discuss and share digitally informed texts of the past and present, so you will notice some new features: for instance, “from the archive” pulls up publications that are relevant to the texts you select, and “other essays” provide direct links to the publications by the same author or related readings of interest. Enjoy! We also look forward to seeing many of you at the 2018 meeting of the ELO in Montréal, Canada, “Mind the Gap!” from August 13 — 17.
This month, we're delighted to publish two pieces that complement each other through a mutual focus on intellectual property. Dani Spinosa's review of David S. Roh's Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity (2015) and the essay “Information Wants to be Free, Or Does It?: The Ethics of Datafication,” by Geoffrey Rockwell and Bettina Berendt, both deal with the treatment of content in an age of information.
Dialogues abound in ebr’s July 2018 publications.
In response to last month’s review of Chris Kraus’ After Kathy Acker (2017), we welcome a riPOSTe byDaniel Schulz, who is currently working as part of the University of Cologne’s Kathy Acker archive. Schulz’s response to reviewer Ralph Clare explores the dynamic between Acker’s personal life and politics.
Happy new year! We at EBR wish you all the best in 2018.
This month at ebr, we release an essay by Gordon Calleja on narrative indie games and a review by Ralph M. Berry on Amy Hungerford’s *Making Literature Now.*We are also reprinting an interview between Mark Amerika and the late Adrian Miles, in celebration of his contributions and his memory.
This May, ebr offers three posts that negotiate the relationship between utterance and silence: two riPOSTes to Joseph McElroy’s essay “Forms of Censorship; Censorship as Form” (originally published in ebr in February 2018), and a review of After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography.
ebr publishes two essays this month that ask tough questions about censorship and that inquire into transmedial narrative experiences.