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[…]gaming, and such quantification is unavoidable in a computer-based game that relies on binary […]

The literary critical term that covers the phenomenon of one character trusting another more than the reader knows he or she should is dramatic irony. This term doesn’t apply cleanly in Deikto stories, however, given that a character’s trustworthiness (or another attribute) is assigned a numeric value. Unlike traditional conceptions of dramatic irony in which the reader knows more than the character, here the apparatus of the story itself bears the knowledge that the character lacks, but the reader does not have such insight. The literary critical term that covers the phenomenon of one character trusting another more than the […]

[…]career as a basketball player. Messenger delves into the relationship between LeClair’s critical interest in the systems novel and his fictional work. Chris Messenger has reviewed the prequal to Passing On – Passing Off – which reveals more about Keever’s career as a basketball player. Messenger delves into the relationship between LeClair’s critical interest in the systems novel and his fictional […]

The Critical Ecologies thread was established by Joseph Tabbi and Cary Wolfe in 1997, revisited by Andrew McMurray in 2006, and persists in the writings of Stephen Dougherty, Rob Swigart, and of course in the present discussion. The Critical Ecologies thread was established by Joseph Tabbi and Cary Wolfe in 1997, revisited by Andrew McMurray in 2006, and persists in the writings of Stephen Dougherty, Rob Swigart, and of course in the present […]

[…]of discussion in two 2007/8 reviews: Beginning with a discussion of paranoia’s centrality to critical work on Pynchon, Timothy Melley’s review of John Farrell’s Paranoia and Modernity considers the historical importance of paranoia to the Western mind. In his 2006 ebr essay, McHale returns to Pynchon and to postmodernism to reflect on earlier approaches to the movement Pynchon is the subject of discussion in two 2007/8 reviews: Beginning with a discussion of paranoia’s centrality to critical work on Pynchon, Timothy Melley’s review of John Farrell’s Paranoia and Modernity considers the historical importance of paranoia to the Western mind. In his […]

[…]much less consciousness, are well known. The work here acknowledges such limitations and embraces critical perspectives of AI such as provided by Searle, Winograd and Flores, Agre, and others. The goal of the GRIOT system is not to model consciousness. It is not full system autonomy or machine competence at a Turing-test style for story generation. The gloss provided by Ben Underwood echoes, rather than disputes, the approach taken in the work described here. Various critiques of the capacity of computing technologies to represent many everyday aspects of human cognition, much less consciousness, are well known. The work here acknowledges […]

[…]turn to figures of cyclic or folded temporality, in U.S.-based new media literary and cultural studies (Gitelman, *Always Already New;* Acland, *Residual Media;* Zielinski et al., *Deep Time of the Media;* Funkhouser, *Prehistoric Digital Poetry*…) — and with what one might read from that turn, perhaps, as a newly self-conscious and justly sensitive form of temporizing attention to the field’s own imperial Euro-Atlantic First Worldism *as* a research field. To its own complete dependence, in other words, on wealth-dependent (and as such, highly leveraged) habits and levels of energy consumption. If the argument in Kirschenbaum’s groundbreaking book, as used to […]

[…]critique of technology and modernity” might be to withdraw the license this provides, *even as a critical diagnosis,* for further inward-gazing appropriations of the sort this essay elsewhere so articulately resists. Is it really unthinkable that the entire intellectual tradition of U.S. exceptionalism, in all of its right, liberal, and leftish versions, will someday be decisively shadowed by imperial […]

[…]Löwy suggests, too easily dismissed—and that it is as good a vehicle as any for the specific critical package described in item #2 (“Internationalism and Politics”), below: not “post-colonial theory” as a perhaps finally inter-statist accommodation of (any new) global order (in the new national transnationalisms and hemispherizations, the new global comparatisms, and so on), but anticolonial criticism as insistence on local autonomy and self-determination, in setting multiple, epistemically distributed terms for any such critical […]

[…]time” (the cue taken from Dimock’s work, below) the figure of erasure that any insurgent self-critical project of Euro-Atlantic modernity itself—such as a renovated ecocritical or any other criticism—must also face. We mustn’t forget, perhaps, that there is no properly “global scale” for comparison: “the globe” is a circumscriptive figure, in equal or greater measure as it is […]

From Gaming the System:”Working both centrifugally and centripetally from the relations of production of The Cultural Logic of Computation itself (not least in its status as a “tenure book”), Golumbia seats the female or feminized operators of a domestic workforce democratized by war’s exigency at the controls of the computer as world-war machine, suggestively linking the feminized technocratic class of the intellectuals to the subjugation-within-subjugation of the human computer under masculinist technocratic administration.” From Gaming the System:”Working both centrifugally and centripetally from the relations of production of The Cultural Logic of Computation itself (not least in its status as a […]

In Critical Environments, Wolfe also explores the theoretical and pragmatic similarities and differences between Luhmannian systems theory and contemporary Marxist philosophy. On pages 147-149, his theoretical sympathies with Luhmann and his political sympathies with Fredric Jameson seem to pull him in opposite, perhaps contradictory […]

Wolfe’s critical engagement with music goes back at least to 2001, when he co-edited an ebr […]

For an earlier consideration of the state of Pynchon studies, also appearing in ebr, see Joseph Tabbi’s “The Pyndustry in […]

[…]Fedorova’s call: to study and practice problems of translation, both of natural languages and of code. To this end, Electronic Literature Collection/3, 2015, has obtained the services of critics as curators in a number of languages and also recruited several translators to help with curation and production. […] See the full […]