Being a reader of Steve Tomasula for the past 30 years means following formally and materially innovative works of art and literature that contribute to a technological reshaping of the posthuman condition. Mary K. Holland, reminded in a waiting room in 2015 of Tomasula's impact on her own critical thinking, reflects on the eerie connections in 'fi about sci, not sci-fi'.

In this provocation, Maud Bougerol analyzes the teetering of boundaries in Steve Tomasula's "The Color of Flesh" (2015) where the reading experience lingers between linearity and non-linearity, and words and images transgress their usual thresholds.

Chris Funkhauser interviews musician, professor, digital and cross-disciplinary artist John Cayley on sound, poetry, coding languages, and the process of creation.

In this perceptive review, Mehulkumar Desai examines Deena Larsen's Stone Moon throughout Larsen's creative journey, first as an unreleased work in Storyspace in the 90s to being released in Twine in 2025. Uniting cultural and archival praxis, Desai's review discusses how we might look at creativity in the technological continuum.

Kiera Obbard reviews Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram, a new collection of essays on the often maligned genre of Instapoetry.

With a first-hand experience of observing and participating in the inception of the internet and early machine writing, Steve Tomasula reflects on his and Joseph Tabbi's interconnected history within a new form of the sublime. Using Tabbi's collected works as a framework, Tomasula explores the posthuman experience of narrative architecture.

In this recollection—published as part of the Celebrating Joseph Tabbi gathering—Kurt Heintz chronicles the early days of a strand of the electronic literature community as it moves from Chicago's Belmont Avenue to the UCLA'S 2002 ELO Conference. In doing so, Heintz argues that, then and now, Joseph Tabbi acts a vital point of convergence for the electronic literature field.

In this interview—part of a series initiated by The NEXT—author Deena Larsen and academic N. Katherine Hayles discuss Hayles' involvement in the formation of the academic field of electronic literature, Hayles' approach to literary critique, and the reduction of anthropocentric bias in conceptions of cognition.

Cecily Raynor reviews Cartografía crítica de la literatura digital latinoamericana, a collection of essays that shines the spotlight on the vast and diverse corpus of Latin American electronic literature.

In these edited and approved transcripts from interviews conducted by Will Luers for the ebr@30 online commemoration, Ewan Brenda, Davin Heckman, Lori Emerson, Steve Tomasula, Lai-Tze Fan, Rob Wittig, Will Luers, and Tegan Pyke reflect on how they came to know Joe Tabbi and got involved with ebr.

Hannah Ackermans introduces The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative via a discussion of digital communities and unintentional acts of exclusion, highlighting the importance of a shared vocabulary for accessibility in scholarship.

In this conversation with Yolanda De Gregorio Robledo, e-poet María Mencía discusses her journey as an artist and scholar. In doing so, María reveals her artistic interests, the influences the electronic literature community has had on her work, and the importance of highlighting women's contributions to the field of electronic literature as a whole.

A special call for papers celebrating the work of Joe Tabbi—electronic book review's founder and long-term editor-in-chief—which will be published in a special issue of electronic book review during the journal's 30th anniversary year.

The electronic book review Editorial Team discusses electronic book review's 30th anniversary, the journal's position at the junctures of multiple academic disciplines, the threat of an increasingly turbulent global stage, and the aspiration to continue providing a home for a future defined by resistance and unity.

Part 2 of Philippe Bootz's exploration of the procedural mode in digital literature, continued from part 1.

In a keynote delivered at ELO 2024, Chris Klimas recounts ELO 2007 and the creation of Twine. In doing so, he highlights the importance of community and open-source software in fostering digital creativity, while pondering the possibility of a platform dark forest.

Phillipe Bootz defines and situates a set of artifacts, devices, material components and human groups that are in contact with earlier procedural "dispositifs." The procedural model, in Bootz's 30 year long research, analyses, theoretical frameworks and observations, expressly distinguishes human beings from material components. In opposition to artificial/human proposals such as the trans-human or the cyborg. The dispositif, in Bootz's presentation, only concerns the physical world. It does not contain signs, is not concerned with literature or art. And neither are individuals, within the procedural model, considered for themselves. They are actors at a given moment. Their positions are characterized  by their power to directly act on the artifacts and objects of the dispositif.

Managing Editor Anna Nacher recollects the past — and sketches out the future of ebr.

A Review of Bookishness, by Jessica Pressman.

In this episode of "Off Center," Scott Rettberg, Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, interviews Caitlin Fisher, a pioneer of immersive AR and VR and Director of the Immersive Storytelling Lab at York University.