[…]and media history in the contemporary novel. Paul Benzon teaches contemporary literature, media studies, and critical writing at Temple University. He is currently at work on a project on formal experimentation and media history in the contemporary […]
[…]late fiction of Cormac McCarthy for publication. Anthony Warde recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield and is Associate Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory at Sheffield Hallam University. He is currently preparing his monograph on narrative themes and stylistic techniques in the late fiction of Cormac McCarthy for […]
[…]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 […]