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                   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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