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Illogic of Sense | The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix: Introduction

Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye introduce the collection of essays, appearing here in the electropoetics thread, from the Alt-x e-book The Illogic of Sense.

Media, Genealogy, History

Matt Kirschenbaum reviews Remediation by Richard Grusin and Jay David Bolter.

A Language of the Ordinary, or the eLEET?

Dave Ciccoricco reviews Michael Joyce's novel of network culture, Was. Seeing an inversion of Russian formalism in Joyce's work, Ciccoricco explores how Joyce's novel attempts to "reconcile the polylinguistic, stylistic, and ludic difficulty" of the text with an "affinity for the quotidian."

Alire: A Relentless Literary Investigation

Phillippe Bootz gives an account of the longest standing web-based literary journal in France.
Translation by James Stevens

“Is this for real? Is that a stupid question?”: A Review of Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts

Dennis Cooper's disorienting novel, The Sluts, complicates reader expectations about subjectivity and identity. As a result, Megan Milks notes that it "is either the most honest or the most dishonest literature I have come across."

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In 1996, for an early ebr special on intellectuals and the public sphere, Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discussed “what intellectual work would be like in the new electracy.” How far their predictions held true, can be seen by comparing the old ebr with the current interface that features new essays on Ulmer’s work.

In 1996, for an early ebr special on intellectuals and the public sphere, Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discussed “what intellectual work would be like in the new electracy.” How far their predictions held true, can be seen by comparing the old ebr with the current interface that features new essays on Ulmer’s work.

‐ Lori Emerson

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Chris Carter’s ebr interview with Ulmer delves more deeply into how the FRE’s emerAgency incorporates heuretics into Web-based discourse. Ulmer’s attention to the consumerist tendencies of popular culture helps the FRE form a poetics that is at once oppositional and generative. Marc Bousquet in turn comments on Carter’s interview in “Teaching the Cyborg.”

Chris Carter’s ebr interview with Ulmer delves more deeply into how the FRE’s emerAgency incorporates heuretics into Web-based discourse. Ulmer’s attention to the consumerist tendencies of popular culture helps the FRE form a poetics that is at once oppositional and generative. Marc Bousquet in turn comments on Carter’s interview in “Teaching the Cyborg.”

‐ Lori Emerson

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Victor Vitanza reviews Ulmer’s Heuretics and contextualizes it in relation to Ulmer’s oeuvre.

Victor Vitanza reviews Ulmer’s Heuretics and contextualizes it in relation to Ulmer’s oeuvre.

‐ Lori Emerson