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1. A Vital Materialist goes to The Lego Movie

   A serious (and playful) consideration of the power of “things,” Christopher Leise reviews Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things through the lens of the Lego Movie. The implied dynamism of the manipulable modularity of the Lego world provides strong resonances with Bennett’s take on “thing-power” and distributed agency, while the crisis in the plot of the Lego Movie offers an apt illustration of the dangers of human exceptionalism discussed in Bennett’s text.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/silly)

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:17

2. Environmental Remediation

   Bridging Superfund sites and video games, Alenda Chang’s essay revisits media- and computation-centered definitions of remediation to extend media and mediation past the pale of digital visual technology. Through a parallel consideration of what’s known as environmental remediation—cleaning up or cordoning off polluted sites, using technological or biotechnological methods—Chang argues that human and nonhuman bodies and ecosystems are equally enmeshed in practices of communication and transformation.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/remediation) 

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:21

3. Where do we find ourselves? A review of Herbrechter's "Critical Posthumanism"

   In his review of Stefan Herbrechter’s Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis, John Bruni addresses the technoscientific and philosophical varieties of posthumanism, and considers the necessity of moving beyond the “dehumanizing” effects of technocentric theories of cultural evolution. This critical project seeks to preserve freedom and agency, rejecting a concept of posthumanism as a side-effect of innovation in favor of one that sees change itself arising from social processes.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/unhumanly) 

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:28

4. technocapitalism

   Technocapitalism began as a set of essays collected in 2002 to be the first in a series of Alt-X Critical E-books.

   Filip Falk - 13.10.2017 - 18:32

5. Fictions Present

   Everything that happens, happens now. The essays, narratives, and essay-narratives gathered under the thread title, Fictions Present, reaffirm the 'presentist' bias in electronic publishing and in ebr particularly: our non-periodical, continuous publication is designed to keep the archive current and to present critical writing not as an afterthought, but as an integral element in the creation of literary fictions.

   (Source: ebr, thread editors' statement)

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 15:51

6. Engineering Cyborg Ideology

   Have you seen a cyborg today? Would you know it if you had? A creature of science fiction novels, electronic engineering, and postmodern theory, the cyborg is like the white heron of Sarah Orne Jewett’s story: often discussed but seldom glimpsed. The ambiguity of what one means by a cyborg rumbles through Diane Greco’s electronic hypertext Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric as she plays a series of electronic riffs on Donna Haraway’s now famous essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” giving it, to my Los Angeles ear, an unsettling quality not unlike the queasiness I feel when I go through the mountain tunnel of the Universal Studios tour.

    

   (Source: ebr)

   Ole Samdal - 24.10.2017 - 15:28

7. Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions

   Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 15:42

8. The Interlocutor in Print and Digital Fiction: Dialogicity, Agency, (De-)Conventionalization

   The Interlocutor in Print and Digital Fiction: Dialogicity, Agency, (De-)Conventionalization

   Astrid Ensslin - 14.11.2017 - 04:44

9. Locating New Literary Practices/Expressions in Indian Digital Spaces

   Locating New Literary Practices/Expressions in Indian Digital Spaces

   Shanmuga Priya - 15.11.2017 - 09:38

10. (Ghosts of) Generative Literature in Italy Between Past, Present and Future

    In 2006 Tommaso Lisa stated that since Nanni Balestrini’s Tape Mark I, not
    much has been done much to elaborate creative synergies between poetry and
    computer in Italy. In fact, the absence of Italy - homeland of Calvino, Marinetti
    and Toti - from major anthologies, collections, and exhibitions in the field of e-lit
    confirms such a bitter statement. But it is still the case? What is the current state
    of Italian electronic literature? What should be the reasons for its absence on the
    international scene? What actions are being made and what still could be made
    to spread electronic literature in Italy?

    Roberta Iadevaia - 20.11.2017 - 10:37

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