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1. Love Your Corporation

   Analyzing the long and complex history of the term corporation, Turner explores the possibility that the term’s roots in the universitas might serve as a basis for a re-translation and re-valuation of the corporate concept and establish a ground, both discursive and practical, for a reassessment of the “political” as a process of imaginative transformation and collective action.

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   Filip Falk - 24.09.2017 - 21:31

2. Ghostbusters 2.0

   If the 1984 Ghostbusters film can be read as an early foreshadowing of the neoliberal transformation of the United States of America, how might the film’s 2016 sequel be interpreted?  Ralph Clare reviews the new film in the context of his reading of the original in his 2014 book Fictions, Inc. 

   (Source: EBR) 

   Filip Falk - 24.09.2017 - 21:35

3. Academia.“edu”

   Investigating the question of whether academics should be concerned that Academia.edu is not an educational institution, Johannah Rodgers finds that the answers depend on your definition of “education” and which parties you ask.

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   Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 12:32

4. A Digital Publishing Model for Publication by Writers (for Writers)

   How might literary databases be seen as alternatives to the commodification of academic scholarship in for profit, subscriber platforms?  Scott Rettberg and Joseph Tabbi discuss issues related to instrumentality, the global marketplace, and the digital humanities.

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   Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 12:37

5. Precarity or Normalization? Yes, Please! A Review of Isabell Lorey’s State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

   In this review, three social conditions of the Precarious (“precariousness, precarity, and (governmental) precarization”) are described. Furthermore, the neo-liberalist use of self-regulation as a means to exert control over individuals is exposed. The possibility to turn precarity into “a form of political mobilization,” as suggested by Lorey, is also explored.

   (Source: EBR)

   Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 12:43

6. The Mourning of Work in For a New Critique of Political Economy: Bernard Stiegler, a Hacker Ethic, and Greece’s Debt Crisis

   “Even among the Greeks and Romans, the most advanced nations of antiquity, money reaches its full development, which is presupposed in modern bourgeois society, only in the period of disintegration.”- Karl Marx, Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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   Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 20:20

7. Hyperrhiz 17: ELO 2016 Next Horizons

   Keynote talks, essays and gallery works featured at Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival, June 10-12 2016, Victoria B.C. Introduction by Dene Grigar.

   Helen Burgess - 27.09.2017 - 17:59

8. The End of Landscape: Holes by Graham Allen

   In her discussion of the textual, technical, and figurative characteristics of Graham Allen’s Holes (2017), Karhio “argues that [Allen’s text] is not a landscape poem in the customary sense” and explores the ways in which the digital platforms deployed in the project’s creation and publication contribute to the signifying structures that “challenge the idea of landscape as symbolic representation of the inner world of the speaking subject.”

   Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 11:15

9. Back to the Book: Tempest and Funkhouser’s Retro Translations

   Jeneen Naji describes Chris Funkhouser’s Press Again and Sonny Rae Tempest’s Famicommunist Poetics as examples of “the UnderAcademy style” begun by Talan Memmott. At the same time, within the context of post-digital publication, Naji explores concepts like “transcreation” and “translation” insofar as the two digital practitioners have conveyed experimental e-texts into print.

   Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 11:26

10. Digital Ekphrasis and the Uncanny: Toward a Poetics of Augmented Reality

    In this essay, Robert P. Fletcher demonstrates how, while putting together digital and print media affordances, augmented print may evoke in readers a sense of the uncanny. Fletcher also explains how works such as Amaranth Borsuk’s Abra (2014), Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe’s Ice-Bound (2016) or Stuart Campbell’s Modern Polaxis (2014) seem to demonstrate the existence of a never-ending return of the “familiar” in electronic literature.

    Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 12:35

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