[Air-l] Fwd: new from ebr

[Steve Jones]

>INTERIOR, NIGHT
>[computer glow; dark bedroom]
>
>
>"Who reads this stuff?"
>
>asks a friend as she looks up
>from the electronic book review (www.altx.com/ebr),
>her ear lit by the screen
>
>
>"I mean . . .  I love it," she says,
>"but how many of ME are there
>out there?"
>
>
>CUT TO
>INTERIOR, LATE NIGHT
>[a mixer for the Electronic Literature Organization]
>
>A bunch of us
>are huddled near some candles
>
>shouting over the DJ
>
>jamming on
>a spoken description of ebr . . .
>
>"ebr
>is where academics who 'get it'
>& artists who 'get it'
>come to be smart
>about new work"
>
>  . . . yep, that sounds about right
>
>
>CUT BACK TO
>[computer glow; dark bedroom]
>
>"There are a lot of YOU out here,"
>I answer my friend.
>
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>
>O, DEAR AUDIENT OF THE PRESENT!
>
>YES, YOU!
>
>COME TO BE SMART!
>
>COME PLAY EBR!
>
>ebr (www.altx.com/ebr)
>continues its hot work
>of melting the boundaries
>between disciplines
>
>with its current constellation
>
>"music sound noise"
>
>--------------------------------------
>
>      "Humans do not have a switch
>       or "earlids"
>       to turn off the ear's listening."
>      --- Elise Kermani, currently in ebr
>
>
>
>ebr 12 general essays (www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/index.html)
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>
>A Poetics of the Link
>Jeff Parker contributes to the ongoing debate on electropoetics and
>invites readers to post their own link types and descriptions.
>
>
>Cybertext Theory and Literary Studies, A User's Manual
>Considering cybertext as a subset of hypertexts, Markku Eskelinen weighs
>in with seven examples of how to implement Espen Aarseth's seven-fold
>typology.
>
>      "In short, serious print scholars
>       will eat hypertext theory for breakfast sooner or later.
>       And actually I can't wait for that to happen . . . . "
>      ---Markku Eskelinen, currently in ebr
>
>
>
>ebr 12 music/sound/noise (www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/index.html)
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>
>The Sonic Spectrum
>Elise Kermani writes about her work with sound and invites readers to
>locate sounds of their own on the spectrum from noise to sound to music.
>
>
>A Somewhat Legal Look at the
>Dawn and Dusk of the Napster Controversy
>Paul C. Rapp, Esq., a.k.a. Lee Harvey Blotto
>
>
>Tattoo it in Skin: A Literary Prediction
>RVV Rob Wittig, Scriptor, fast forwards to a future when teenagers in
>neo-nikes and neo-soccer jerseys recreate ye olden days of the True Hip
>Hop Troubadour, circa Y2K.
>
>
>Litmixer: The Literary Remediator
>With his software groovebox,
>Trace Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the
>performance
>of literary interpretation and critical speculation.
>
>
>End Construction: ebr3.0
>Anne Burdick and Ewan Branda
>introduce the new ebr interface
>  - a complement to the litmixer,
>but using ebr itself as the sampling source. (under construction)
>
>
>A Disorganized Multilingual A to Z Poem
>poem: Raymond Federman.
>audio recording and production: Eric Rasmussen and Shaun Sandor
>
>Flood
>poem: Thomas Swiss;
>photographs: David Henry;
>design: Ingrid Ankerson.
>Done in a "classical mode." Using Micromedia's Flash.
>
>
>Stuttering Screams and Beastly Poetry
>Allison Hunter writes on Douglas Kahn,
>a modern musicologist who takes in the noise of modern battle, recordings
>from the tops of trains and the interiors of coalmines, and also the
>musicality
>of undigitized everyday noise.
>
>
>When You Can't Believe Your Eyes:
>Voice, Vision, And the Prosthetic Subject in 'Dancer in the Dark'
>Cary Wolfe investigates why the reviewers were so rattled by the Lars von
>Trier film, and in the process
>puts Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell,
>Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler into conversation.
>
>
>New Beatle/Beach Boy Facts
>David Greenberger on the two titans
>of entertainment and enlightenment.
>
>
>
>further reVIEWs on critical ecologies: media/systems theory
>(www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/index.html)
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>
>
>Further Notes From the Prison-House of Language
>Linda Brigham works through
>Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.
>
>
>Mindful of Multiplicity
>Linda Carroli reviews Michael Joyce
>on networked culture, whose emergence
>changes our ideas of change.
>
>
>The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
>Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection, Simulacrum America.
>
>
>
>ebr12 reVIEWs of general interest (www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/index.html)
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>
>
>Duchamp Through Shop Windows
>Reviewing new scholarship by David Joselit, Molly Nesbit, Thierry de Duve,
>and Linda Henderson,
>Hannah Higgins proposes that
>writing about Duchamp needs to be Duchampian in flavor.
>
>
>What Lies Beneath?
>Gene Kannenberg, Jr. finds the most well-publicized comic by one of
>America's most significant cartoonists
>to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but finally all
>too true to its title:
>the characters and situations
>in David Boring are in fact boring.
>
>
>Talking Back to the Owners of the World
>Steffen Hantke on Tom LeClair's
>and Richard Powers's novelistic imaginations of terror.
>
>
>America: The Usable ClichÈ
>Sue Im-Lee reviews Reciting America by Christopher Douglas.
>
>
>Reading the L.A. Landscape
>Claire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L.
>Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.
>
>
>Accretive Dreams, Junk Narrativity,
>& Orphaned Excess in Moderation
>Lance Olsen reviews hypertext writing,
>past and present, by Robert Arellano.
>
>
>Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia
>Jaishree K. Odin on the hyperfiction
>of M.D. Coverley.
>
>
>++ electronic book review ++
>http://www.altx.com/ebr