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electronic book review (ebr) is a peer-reviewed journal produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. since 1995.

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Can ChatGPT really do better than a poor imitation of postmodern cut-up techniques? @PolinaMackay (@UNIC_ENG) & @JamesMackayCyp (@EuropeanUniCy) think so. Here are their reasons for holding onto a human, guiding intelligence in the writing process: electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Experiments in Generating Cut-up texts with Commercial AI | ebr

Can ChatGPT or other Chatbot interfaces really write anything better than a feeble imitation of postmodern cut-up techniques? Polina and James Mackay think so, and they offer some reasons for holding...

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Last summer, I got to talk about William Gaddis with some very bright people--Victoria Harding, Jeff Bursey, @chrisvia, Ali Chetwynd, and @chadwpost --as part of Electronic Book Review's Gaddis Centenary project. electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Gaddis Centenary Roundtable: Para-Academic Venues for Discussing Gaddis and Other Innovative...

This roundtable discussion took place online in August 2023: it has been lightly edited for focus and clarity. The Chair was Ali Chetwynd, with Jeff Bursey, Victoria Harding, Chad Post, Edwin Turner,...

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Check out the second episode of the Off Center podcast for an interview with EBR Editor in Chief Joe Tabbi. Joe sat down with Scott Rettberg to discuss the journal, researching electronic literature, & the Center for Digital Narrative at UiB. podcasts.apple.com/se/podcas…

Episode 2: The Electronic Book Review and Building the Field of Electronic Literature, with Joseph...

Podcast Episode · Off Center · 15 August 2023 · 32min

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the digital review@tdrbark
18 Dec 2023
CFP: ISSUE 04 (2024) Deadline 1/15/24 AUGMENTING CREATIVITY EDITOR: Will Luers Submit born-digital works that delve into machine-augmented creativity in light of generative AI's growing influence on cultural production... thedigitalreview.com/submiss…
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CFP: ISSUE 04 (2024) Deadline 1/15/24 AUGMENTING CREATIVITY EDITOR: Will Luers Submit born-digital works that delve into machine-augmented creativity in light of generative AI's growing influence on cultural production... thedigitalreview.com/submiss…
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From Datarama to Dadarama: What Electronic Literature Can Teach Us on a Virtual Conference’s Rendering of Perspective. electronicbookreview.com/ess…

From Datarama to Dadarama: What Electronic Literature Can Teach Us on a Virtual Conference’s...

On this first Sunday in July 2023, as the Electronic Literature Organization prepares for its meeting in Coimbra, Portugal, we present a set of reflections by four ELO members who co-organized this...

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The development of Internet Fiction in China, from Internet sub-culture to mainstream literature electronicbookreview.com/ess…

The development of Internet Fiction in China, from Internet sub-culture to mainstream literature |...

"Why," Serafina Aquilino asks, "is Internet literature so popular in China, compared to other countries?" The answer may be found in the Chinese "unique literary production." Print, nothing less, is...

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Textpocalypse Now? electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Textpocalypse Now? | ebr

Pold extends Heckman's "thrilling (if not chilling)" critique to left-wing understandings and critical takes by theorists such as Walter Ong, Bernard Stiegler, and Vannevar Bush.

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Response to John Cayley’s ‘Modelit’ electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Response to John Cayley’s ‘Modelit’ | ebr

In his response to John Cayley, Dougherty takes the current concern with AIwriting as an opportunity to revive one of ebr's long-running threads; namely: the critical, contrarian riPOSTe.

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Cyborg Authorship: Writing with AI – Part 1: The Trouble(s) with ChatGPT electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Cyborg Authorship: Writing with AI – Part 1: The Trouble(s) with ChatGPT | ebr

In this anticipation of John Cayley's ebr essay on Artificial Intelligence, Scott Rettberg contextualizes some of the ethical and systemic problems of ChatGPT and argues that works of electronic...

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Modelit: eliterature à la (language) mode(l) electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Modelit: eliterature à la (language) mode(l) | ebr

Cayley's image is an apt illustration of an essay that's also a work of 'digital language art.' Although Cayley incorporates new material and newly contextualized examples, referring chiefly to his...

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A review of My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (2022) electronicbookreview.com/ess…

A review of My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (2022) | ebr

In his review of Mark Amerika's My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (2022), David Thomas Henry Wright highlights Amerika's negotiation of human, nonhuman, symbiotic creative practices in...

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Thoughts on the Textpocalypse electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Thoughts on the Textpocalypse | ebr

Davin Heckman offers thoughts on Matthew Kirschenbaum's now well-known essay in The Atlantic, The Textpocalypse (2023). Contemplating our own limits in digital media scholarship, including the...

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Alex Mitchell Netprov Interview Nov 2022 electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Alex Mitchell Netprov Interview Nov 2022 | ebr

Rob Wittig and Alex Mitchell discuss the very beginnings and the most recent iterations of Netprov, with a focus on generative AI, collaboration and improvisational writing.

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Scott Rettberg Netprov Interview Oct 2022 electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Scott Rettberg Netprov Interview Oct 2022 | ebr

Rob Wittig and Scott Rettberg discuss the pioneer times in digital writing and electronic literature, a time long ago, in a Galaxy far away, when the audience at literary events did not have a clue...

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Open, but not too much. A review of Emanuela Patti’s Opera aperta. Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present electronicbookreview.com/ess…

Open, but not too much. A review of Emanuela Patti's Opera aperta. Italian Electronic Literature...

Starting with Umberto Eco's 1962 essay, "Opera aperta," and progressing into Emanuela Patti's tentative forays into **Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present**, Roberta Iadevaia...

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My Month with Midjourney electronicbookreview.com/ess…
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‘A Shifting Surface World’: The Techno-Graphomania of David Jhave Johnston’s ReRites electronicbookreview.com/ess…

‘A Shifting Surface World’: The Techno-Graphomania of David Jhave Johnston’s ReRites | ebr

Avoiding the "twin pitfalls of either Luddite dread or AI boosterism," in this essay George MacBeth offers a close Re-Reading of Jhave's [ReRites](https://www.anteism.com/shop/rerites-david-jhave-j...

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2 Apr 2023
I wrote an essay on algo-literature, ‘techno-graphomania’, Pound/Eliot’s fight for custody of ‘The Wasteland’, & @jhave2’s ‘ReRites’ project for the @ebrbark’s new section on ‘machine writing’ electronicbookreview.com/ess…

‘A Shifting Surface World’: The Techno-Graphomania of David Jhave Johnston’s ReRites | ebr

Avoiding the "twin pitfalls of either Luddite dread or AI boosterism," in this essay George MacBeth offers a close Re-Reading of Jhave's [ReRites](https://www.anteism.com/shop/rerites-david-jhave-j...

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the digital review@tdrbark
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Please consider submitting an abstract for issue 03 of The Digital Review: on online journal for the born-digital essay CFP: ISSUE 03 (2023) - “COUNTER-WORKS” Editors: Carlota Salvador Megias and Ian Hatcher thedigitalreview.com/submiss… thedigitalreview.com
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