[…]of Victoria, Canada. She teaches courses in the areas of contemporary cultural theory, Animal Studies, and Canadian Literature. The author of Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times (Minnesota 2009), she is presently working on a manuscript that examines how animals labour affectively in therapeutic economies of late […]
[…]of Western Sydney, Australia and writes across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies with a particular focus on affect theory, mimetic communication and fictocriticism. She was Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded project “The Power of the Image: affect, audience & disturbing imagery” with Virginia Nightingale (2006-9) and has recently completed a second ARC Discovery Grant with Maria Angel and PI Professor Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago), entitled: “Creative Nation: writers and writing in the image culture.” The project includes the construction of ADELTA (the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art). Gibbs’s 2010 […]
[…]Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1988. Since 1993 he has been working as the independent scholar and the principal investigator at national and international research projects on cyberarts, e-literature and the Internet culture. He is the author of seven scientific monographs in the fields of cultural studies, digital literature and aesthetics published in Slovenia (the last is Text and the New Media, 2007). His most recent essays written in English are included as book chapters in Reading Moving Letters (ed. by R. Simanowski et al.), Regards Croisses (ed. by Ph. Bootz and Ch. Baldwin), V sieti […]
Robert Lestón is working on a book that studies autonomous communities and their relation to social movements. His work has appeared in Configurations, Kairos, Enculturation, Itineration, Atlantic Journal of Communication, and other venues. He is also coauthor of Beyond the Blogosphere: Information and Its Children (2012) with Aaron Barlow. He is an Associate Professor at CUNY, NYC College of […]
[…]these three books – inclusive because it subsumes the private and public foci of the first two studies, and sophisticated because its perspective is essentially philosophic and self-reflexive. Van Wyck, as humanist, has mastered (for good or ill) the language of cultural studies that Kroll-Smith and Floyd bumbled so heavy-handedly and uses it as the medium for analysis of the crippling deficiencies of deep ecology as a type of environmentalism. Van Wyck’s prose, however, is far from exemplary, blighted by numerous obscure passages (endemic to cultural studies), occasional solecisms and syntactical blunders, and deficiencies of copy-editing. Still, if you can […]
[…]just a different calendar (?) – smaller portions, even individual units published at a time (no critical mass? individual attention?) – all essays “current”? – conceptually, the journal becomes a whole, its past is its present – the growth, history, and activity of the journal actively contribute to its appearance – this issue of the journal being whole – the journal itself becomes a corpus, a library, a larger work built of inter-related parts – are we making the whole too dominant? – nothing is replaced by more current versions – greater continuity between themes (?) – opportunity for reconfiguration […]
[…]“critifictional” responses to the issues of the day, for example, the ETOYS vs. ETOY fight now working its way into both the net art/theory community and the mainstream e-commerce media cycles) – it means the journal is wholier-than-thou, always expanding, monster-like, unpredictable, but with editorial vision – it means this editorial process becomes more focused on our theme of “gathering threads” and involves a more dynamic interweaving process that is faciliated by the database/machine/application Ewan’s idea of creating an interface that would “begin to reorganize the connections and groupings in ways other than those intended by the editors” so that […]
[…]address of every person who has contrbuted to ebr. out of that core group (of readers who are also critical writers), we may want to tag each one with a “thread” or group of threads defining that reader’s unique set of interests (green or gray ecology; poetics; image + narratve, etc). this way, when a new essay is posted on a given subject, i (or my collaborating editor) can “automatically” identify readers with a demonstrated interest in a given subject. in other words, the threading concept might be used to help us articulate structures in our audience that answer to […]
[…]a kind of writing, which is then retroactively revealed to have been “noisy” all along. Working from the perspective of sound as one of the “spatial arts,” future contributors to this thread might raise the question of how one should navigate through the rhetoric of noise (while filtering the noise of rhetoric). Who wants to remix this noise into pseudo-autobiographical narrative? mystory? critifiction? Why did Progressive Networks change their name to Real Networks in the year 2000? And what about the Senator from Washington state, the 42-year-old Maria Cantwell who funded her campaign with moneys cashed in from her job […]
[…]asserts the importance of visual aesthetics to e-poetry; and the last two lines – “grep -i code * /*” (a Unix program command) and “HTTP Error 404” (the error code for a broken link on the Web) – point to the shortcomings of traditional hypertext and the possibilities of programmed texts. If the arc from hypertext to programmable media serves as the background for Glazier’s arguments, then the main focus of the text can be derived from the larger red text. The acrostic text invites multiple readings. If “Dig[iT]al Poet(I)(c)s” is the natural first reading, then it doesn’t take long […]