[…]five-volume edited series, “The Politics of Information,” brings class back into cultural studies, considers the Web as crucial to the expanding ‘informatics of domination,’ and recovers the cyborg as a key figure for an entire world of labor and lifeways. Recalling that Donna Haraway’s Cyborg was never meant to be a wired, blissed-out bunny, Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills recover the political dimension in socialist-feminist thought. Their five-volume edited series, “The Politics of Information,” brings class back into cultural studies, considers the Web as crucial to the expanding ‘informatics of domination,’ and recovers the cyborg as a key figure for […]
[…] our non-periodical, continuous publication is designed to keep the archive current and to present critical writing not as an afterthought, but as an integral element in the creation of literary fictions. Everything that happens, happens now. The essays, narratives, and essay-narratives gathered under the thread title, Fictions Present, reaffirm the ‘presentist’ bias in electronic publishing and in ebr particularly: our non-periodical, continuous publication is designed to keep the archive current and to present critical writing not as an afterthought, but as an integral element in the creation of literary […]
[…]Geomancy: The kids of the book-machine : the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982) (Talonbooks, […]
Linda Brigham, in her review of My Mother, argues that the problem with complexity, “even organized complexity,” is that it tends to obscure any narrative “through-line.” For this, Brigham recommends the study of networks and network types that “trace the emergence of story from random bits of narrative.” Linda Brigham, in her review of My Mother, argues that the problem with complexity, “even organized complexity,” is that it tends to obscure any narrative “through-line.” For this, Brigham recommends the study of networks and network types that “trace the emergence of story from random bits of […]
Elsewhere on ebr Lisa Nakamura interviews Haraway, Mathew Fuller reviews The Cyborg Handbook, and Salvatore P offers an interpretation of a Joseph McElroy cyborg. Elsewhere on ebr Lisa Nakamura interviews Haraway, Mathew Fuller reviews The Cyborg Handbook, and Salvatore P offers an interpretation of a Joseph McElroy […]
One of the earlier proponents of critical software studies was Lev Manovich in The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, p. […]
For some examples of Perl Poetry, see […]
For an excellent review of My Mother Was a Computer, go […]
[…]Ecologies thread, circa 2006. Andrew McMurry also questions the complexification of literary studies in his general introduction to the Critical Ecologies thread, circa […]
In a general introduction to Critical Ecologies circa 2006, thread editor Andrew McMurray offers a similar reversal, when he asks readers of this journal whether they fit the profile of the ‘new physiocrat,’ the present embodiment of positivism in critical […]