Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 400.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:55:24 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: New Issue of the Electronic Book Review
Dear Fellow Scholars,
[Following announcement is received via Prof. Steve Jones and
Association of Internet Researchers <air-l list> Thank you. --Arun]
> a new issue of the electronic book review
> **writing under constraint**
> now available at the altx web site
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr>
>
>the winter 1999/2000 issue
>- the last issue to be gathered under the constraint of periodical
>publication -
> features:
>
> -->five new essays on 'writing under constraint'
> (in print, online, and in other cognitive environments)
>
> -->fifteen further contributions on media theory, poetics,
> hypertext
>
> -->new fiction by Harry Mathews
>
>the editors <ebr@uic.edu> invite readers to join the newly established
>listserv,'media-ecology,' where we will discuss ebr's second design overhaul
>in four years and begin assembling a reader database, towards the
>re-emergence of ebr as a full-fledged hypertext
>
>ebr10 issue contents
>---------------------------------------
>
>Paul Braffort considers constrained writing from Henry Adams to ALAMO
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10bra.htm>
>---------------------------------------
>
>issue editor Jan Baetens reviews Federman A to X-X-X-X: A
>Recyclopedic Narrative
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10bae.htm>
>---------------------------------------
>
>Bernardo Schiavetta provides a 2000-word definition of writing under
>constraint.
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10sch.htm>
>---------------------------------------
>
>Paul Harris writes on constraints, cognition, and the Oulipo
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10har.htm>
>---------------------------------------
>
>Stephane Susana visits web sites that take seriously the constraints of the
>electronic environment.
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10sus.htm>
>---------------------------------------
>
>Mister Smathers: a short fiction by Harry Mathews
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10sma.htm>
>
>electropoetics (continuing the thREAD begun in ebr5)
>---------------------------------------
>
>Brian Lennon considers the procedural poetries of Joan Retallack
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10len.htm>
>---------------------------------------
>
>Elisabeth Joyce reads Susan Howe's Guide to Orienteering in the Adirondacks
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10len.htm>
>--------------------------------------
>
>John Matthias reports on the state of British poetry and its criticism
at Y2K
>(the first in a series of overview essays for the year)
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10mat.htm>
>
>
>critical ecologies (continuing the thREAD begun in ebr4)
>----------------------------------------
>
>Laura Dassow Walls finds noted biologist E. O. Wilson to be more Christian
>in outlook than the Reverend William Whewell, who originated the term,
>'consilience'
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr10/10wal.htm>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>
>Bruce Clarke reviews Friedrich Kittler's Grammophone, Film, Typewriter
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10cla.htm>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>
>Joseph Tabbi identifies a 'medial turn' during the seven-year span between
>the publication of Susan Strehle's Fiction in the Quantum Universe and John
>Johnston's Information Multiplicity
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10tab.htm>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Shirin Shenassa situates Roman de la Campa's Latin Americanism within the
>critical discourses of the world's metropolitan centers and introduces a
>new thREAD into ebr's Internet Nation series
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10she.htm>
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>Jan van Looy reviews Silvio Gaggi's study of hypertext fiction
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10van.htm>
>------------------------------------------------------
>
>Luc Herman reviews the collection, Cyberspace Textuality
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10her.htm>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Thomas Hartl reviews Ron Sukenick's Mosaic Man
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10har.htm>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Cynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10dav.htm>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Linda Brigham breaks the first rule of Fight Club and talks about what the
>movie industry keeps secret - not male masochism, anti-corporate terrorism,
>self-help, or even heterosexual anxiety, but how best to deliver a
>commodity that doesn't act like one.
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10bri.htm>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Timothy Melley reviews Mark Fenster's book on conspiracies, factual
>and fictional, and finds evidence against the assumption that only
>nonexistent conspiracies produce conspiracy theories.
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10mel.htm>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>William O'Rourke goes on the beat of the Clinton beat
> <http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10oro.htm>
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