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1. The End of Books

   Coover's "The End of Books" essay in the New York Times significantly introduced hypertext fiction to a wider literary audience. The essay describes that ways that hypertext poses challenges for writers and readers accustomed to coventional narrative forms, including assumptions about linearity, closure, and the division of agency between the writer and reader.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:33

2. Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2

   The article, published in Norwegian in Vagant and in English as "Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2" on the author's website, addresses the release of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, and several new media essays / documentaries published in the collection.

   Scott Rettberg - 27.02.2011 - 20:18

3. Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature

   Electronic literature doesn't come on bound, offset-printed pages. Keeping it on a shelf doesn't mean that it will be easy, or even possible, to read it in the future. Even putting it into a vault with controlled temperature, light, and humidity won't ensure its availability. The new possibilities of electronic literature come from its being as much software as document, as much machine as text. For electronic literature to be readable, its mechanisms must continue to operate or must be replaced, since changes in the context of computing will complicate access to important works of literature on the computer. The context of computing includes operating systems, applications, the network environment, and interface hardware — and this context is constantly evolving. A piece of electronic literature written for a Macintosh in the 1980s may be unreadable on the Macs in a college computer lab today. But e-lit can become unreadable much more quickly, as an upgrade to the next version of the authoring or reading software introduces unexpected problems. Some approaches to creating e-lit are more likely than others to result in work that is preservable.

   Scott Rettberg - 09.04.2011 - 16:03

4. Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric

   An early non-fiction hypertext exploring "the significance of the cyborg in 20th century writing. from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway and Derrida." This book-length work was published as a stand-alone Storyspace hypertext on a disk/CD-ROM.

   This work was published under Diane Greco Josefowicz' earlier name, Diane Greco.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 20:00

5. Virtual Narrations: From the crisis of storytelling to new narration as mental potentiality

   A discussion and overview of digital art that uses narrative, with a particular emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 11:23

6. Medien Kunst Netz / Media Art Net

   This is an extensive collection of information about media art work and critical texts about themes within and theories of media art, presented in German and English. It was created in collaboration between Goethe Institute and the Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe. This record refers to the web edition, but there were also two books published with the content. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/medien-kunst-netz/oclc/612178982&referer=b...)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 11:33

7. Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature

   The intended audience of Born-Again Bits includes besides e-lit authors also the publishers, archivists, academics, programmers, and funding officers who will be necessary partners in an overall, renewable ecology of electronic literature. These other communities are already at work on digital preservation strategies. However, experimental e-lit has special qualities that make it an extreme case of the digital artifact. It is hoped that ELO's PAD initiative will contribute to other digital preservation strategies by ensuring that they accommodate e-lit and so, in the process, become more robust for all digital works.

   Scott Rettberg - 06.02.2012 - 15:04

8. Further, Reading

   English version of article published in Vagant 4/2011 as "E-Lit. Som Litt.-Vit"

   The final column in the "Platform 2" series, offering a survey of important monographs about electronic liiterature.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.03.2012 - 10:35

9. Visions of Reading

   Expanded English version of "Lesningens Visjoner: Om å lese i et multimedialt miljø" published in Norwegian in Vagant 2/2011.

   A discussion of the Poetry Beyond Text project, which examined reading of concrete and digital poetry from a cognitive perspective, and a 2011 exhibition in Dundee, Scotland associated with the project, which included works by John Cayley and Simon Biggs.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2012 - 21:00

10. Disasters Natural and Digital: The Secret Technologies of Jason Nelson

    English version of "Jason Nelsons hemmelige teknologi" published in Vagant 2/2010.

    A discussion of Jason Nelson's work and absurdist aesthetic.

    Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2012 - 21:50

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