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 machine-writing 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/ai-a-matter-of-significance/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">AI: A Matter of Significance by Davin Heckman 01-Oct-2026 

 fictions present 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/a-forgetful-nation/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States by Yasmina Chaara 01-Oct-2026 

 first person 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/dark-souls-as-networked-hyperlinked-videogame/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap"> Dark Souls as Networked Hyperlinked Videogame by Austin Anderson 28-Sep-2025 

 technocapitalism 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/off-center-episode-14-machine-vision-with-jill-walker-rettberg/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">Off Center Episode 14: Machine Vision with Jill Walker Rettberg by Jill Walker Rettberg , Scott Rettberg 15-Jan-2025 

 writing (post)feminism 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/games-racial-equity/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">How to Design Games that Promote Racial Equity by Aynur Kadir , Kishonna Grey , Lai-Tze Fan 12-Sep-2021 

 electropoetics 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/poetry-is-the-language-of-the-soul/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">"Poetry is the Language of the Soul": Najwa Zebian on Instapoetry, Literary Value, and the Healing Power of Words by Kiera Obbard , Najwa Zebian 01-Oct-2026 

 internet nation 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/electronic-literature-and-wikipedia-a-call-to-action/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">Electronic Literature and Wikipedia: A Call to Action by Deena Larsen 30-Jun-2026 

 critical ecologies 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/a-variantology-of-programmable-earths/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">A Variantology of Programmable Earths: A Review of Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka’s Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Roger Whitson 24-Apr-2026 

 web arts 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/off-center-episode-18-speculative-design-with-sarah-edmands-martin/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">Off Center Episode 18: Speculative Design with Sarah Edmands Martin by Sarah Edmands Martin , Scott Rettberg 28-Sep-2025 

 end construction 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/a-research-assistants-story/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">A Research Assistant's Story by Daniel Johannes Rosnes 18-Jan-2026 

 image + narrative 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/off-center-episode-11-filmmaking-and-combinatory-cinema-with-roderick-coover/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">Off Center Episode 11: Filmmaking and Combinatory Cinema with Roderick Coover by Roderick Coover , Scott Rettberg 06-Oct-2024 

 music/sound/noise 
 img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="w-1/4 text-2xl font-semibold" href="/publications/sound-at-the-heart-of-electronic-literature/"> Read the latest post ⏵ img.removeAttribute('data-astro-transition-scope'));" class="ml-5 hover:underline overflow-hidden text-2xl overflow-ellipsis whitespace-nowrap">Sound at the Heart of Electronic Literature by John F. Barber 02-Dec-2018 

 writing under constraint 
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 machine-writing fictions present first person technocapitalism writing (post)feminism electropoetics internet nation critical ecologies web arts end construction image + narrative music/sound/noise writing under constraint enfolded 

 01-Oct-2026 
 review 

 A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States 
by Yasmina Chaara 
 In this review, Yasmina Chaara interrogates Ali Behdad's A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (2005) and discovers the complicated conceptual processes that constructed the public image of the United States of America. These processes, Chaara argues, are reflected in contemporary digital culture.

 01-Oct-2026 
 article 

 AI: A Matter of Significance 
by Davin Heckman 
 By connecting the rise of artificial intelligence to the evolution of writing technologies and cybernetic thinking, Davin Heckman's essay calls into question the norms of contemporary writing practices. In doing so, Heckman asks us not to mourn previous conceptions of literacy, but to consider ourselves on the cusp of new literary potentialities.

 01-Oct-2026 
 article 

 Movie Laughed in Sprocket-Language, or: a Night at the Chatbot 
by Stuart Moulthrop 
 In this article, Stuart Moulthrop approaches the poetics of large language models through his lived teaching experience. Featuring a conversation with SeminarBot b05 and the work of Moulthrop's students, present and past, this piece highlights the divide 'poetic technology' has introduced into society and calls for attention to be paid to the edges of both sides of the argument.

 01-Oct-2026 
 interview 

 "Poetry is the Language of the Soul": Najwa Zebian on Instapoetry, Literary Value, and the Healing Power of Words 
by Kiera Obbard , Najwa Zebian 
 Kiera Obbard talks to Lebanese-Canadian Instapoet Najwa Zebian about the affective power of multimedia poetry, distributing transformational art within toxic social media algorithms, and how to connect with an audience.

 01-Oct-2026 
 article 

 Rhetoric and Poetics of AI 
by Manuel Portela , Ana Marques da Silva 
 Constructed partially of quotations from Big Tech CEOs, academics, and journalists---while interlaying performance with AI cognition---Manuel Portela and Ana Marques da Silva's creative essay imitates a conversation between Rhetoric and Poetics. Through their interaction, the use of such techniques by marketers, doomsayers, and AI itself is laid bare.

 01-Oct-2026 
 review 

 The Poetics of Augmented Attention: Tina Escaja’s Realidad mitigada 
by Patricia López-Gay 
 In her comprehensive review of Escaja’s Realidad Mitigada: una experiencia AR (2025), Patricia López-Gay casts a critical eye across both Escaja's text and her creative practice, building a detailed picture of Escaja's decades-spanning artistic experimentations.

 01-Oct-2026 
 review 

 This Is Not for You, but Who Can You Be? A Quarter Century of House of Leaves and its Digital Afterlives 
by Abhirami Ajith 
 Abhirami Ajith reviews Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) by tracing the novel's online digital afterlife, dissecting its dissection at the hands of participatory culture, and linking these practices back to contemporary literary theory.

 30-Jun-2026 
 interview 

 At the Threshold of Hypertext: Deena Larsen on Stone Moons, Electronic Literature, and the Ethics of Ambiguity 
by Mehulkumar Desai 
 Mehulkumar Desai interviews one of the pioneers of early Electronic Literature and Hypertext Writing, Deena Larsen. The interview reveals Deena's intriguing process of ambiguity and ethics. It shapes Hypertexts beyond a medium to a way of thinking.

 30-Jun-2026 
 article 

 Beyond the Page: Exploring Identity and Reality in the world of Steve Tomasula's Ascension 
by Salma Saidi 
 Steve Tomasula's Ascension refuses to let the novel sit still, weaving a plethora of multimodal practices into a form that insists reading is a physical, perceptual act. Saidi argues that identity and reality in the novel are never found but perpetually assembled by a reader who cannot remain passive.

 30-Jun-2026 
 essay 

 Electronic Literature and Wikipedia: A Call to Action 
by Deena Larsen 
 If electronic literature does not exist in Wikipedia, it does not exist for AI or search engines either. Larsen issues an urgent call for writers, scholars, and readers to become Wikipedia editors before the field disappears into algorithmic silence.

 30-Jun-2026 
 review 

 Familiarity as Estrangement in the Interface Sim: s.p.l.i.t. and the Expert Problem 
by Jack Drabenstadt 
 Interface simulations work by making digital tools feel like the ones you already use, but what happens when you actually use those tools for a living? This review tracks how s.p.l.i.t.'s amber-on-black terminal horror turns most convincing precisely where it becomes most uncomfortable for the expert player.

 30-Jun-2026 
 article 

 Literary Form under Conditions of Media Ephemerality 
by Guilherme Foscolo 
 A poem that encrypts itself after one reading, a videogame-poem that exists only in the contingency of play, an augmented-reality sequence that vanished with its platform: Foscolo argues that disappearance is not a problem digital literature faces but a formal principle it has learned to inhabit.

 30-Jun-2026 
 article 

 The Prompt as Practice 
by Brian Lennon 
 The word "prompt" carries three histories at once: the teacher's assignment, the command line's blinking caret, and the natural-language input to a large language model. This essay reads all three together to argue that prompting is not purely programming but something that sits uneasily in the contact zone between code and natural linguistic expression.

 30-Jun-2026 
 article 

 Verificational Reading: Code Beyond Interpretation 
by Zeroichi Arakawa 
 When you read code, you can interpret it, or you can trace it, and these are not the same thing. Arakawa proposes verificational reading as a distinct epistemic practice, one whose validity rests not on critical persuasion but on what the code actually does when it runs.

 24-Apr-2026 
 article 

 A Posthumanist Genealogy 'Of Being Numerous' in Steve Tomasula's Ascension: A Novel 
by Laura Shackelford 
 Providing insight into posthuman narrative strategies, Laura Shackleford analyses Steve Tomasula's novel Ascension (2022) for relational points of interest. Who or what is ascending who or what, and to what end?

electronic book review ( ebr ) is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network.

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