Mehulkumar Desai interviews one of the pioneers of early Electronic Literature and Hypertext Writing, Deena Larsen. The interview reveals Deena's intriguing process of ambiguity and ethics. It shapes Hypertexts beyond a medium to a way of thinking.
Steve Tomasula's Ascension refuses to let the novel sit still, weaving a plethora of multimodal practices into a form that insists reading is a physical, perceptual act. Saidi argues that identity and reality in the novel are never found but perpetually assembled by a reader who cannot remain passive.
If electronic literature does not exist in Wikipedia, it does not exist for AI or search engines either. Larsen issues an urgent call for writers, scholars, and readers to become Wikipedia editors before the field disappears into algorithmic silence.
Interface simulations work by making digital tools feel like the ones you already use, but what happens when you actually use those tools for a living? This review tracks how s.p.l.i.t.'s amber-on-black terminal horror turns most convincing precisely where it becomes most uncomfortable for the expert player.
A poem that encrypts itself after one reading, a videogame-poem that exists only in the contingency of play, an augmented-reality sequence that vanished with its platform: Foscolo argues that disappearance is not a problem digital literature faces but a formal principle it has learned to inhabit.
The word "prompt" carries three histories at once: the teacher's assignment, the command line's blinking caret, and the natural-language input to a large language model. This essay reads all three together to argue that prompting is not purely programming but something that sits uneasily in the contact zone between code and natural linguistic expression.
When you read code, you can interpret it, or you can trace it, and these are not the same thing. Arakawa proposes verificational reading as a distinct epistemic practice, one whose validity rests not on critical persuasion but on what the code actually does when it runs.
Providing insight into posthuman narrative strategies, Laura Shackleford analyses Steve Tomasula's novel Ascension (2022) for relational points of interest. Who or what is ascending who or what, and to what end?
In this review, Roger Whitson looks into the book Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Aberlardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka for insight into how the aesthetics of earth can become visible through media mapping.
This essay by Cristina Luli analyzes and compares Steve Tomasula's short story "A Farewell to Kilimanjaro" (1993) to Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), bringing to light the embeddedness of media ecology and the materiality of storytelling.
Mary Shaver cautions budding writers against thinking that their biggest tragedies need to defined their work, and instead offers some alternative exercises to find interesting stories in the mundane.
In literature, as in science, how humans emerge remains a continuous matter of engagement. In this article, Claudia Desblaches looks at the emerging scales of human representation in Tomasulas' The Atlas of Man.
Being a reader of Steve Tomasula for the past 30 years means following formally and materially innovative works of art and literature that contribute to a technological reshaping of the posthuman condition. Mary K. Holland, reminded in a waiting room in 2015 of Tomasula's impact on her own critical thinking, reflects on the eerie connections in 'fi about sci, not sci-fi'.
In this provocation, Maud Bougerol analyzes the teetering of boundaries in Steve Tomasula's "The Color of Flesh" (2015) where the reading experience lingers between linearity and non-linearity, and words and images transgress their usual thresholds.
In challenging the tools and materials that make up a narrative, Hanna Hadjadj interrogates the representational aspects of cultures and communities in Tomasula's short story "The Risk-Taking Gene as Expressed by Some Asian Subjects" (2013).