With a first-hand experience of observing and participating in the inception of the internet and early machine writing, Steve Tomasula reflects on his and Joseph Tabbi's interconnected history within a new form of the sublime. Using Tabbi's collected works as a framework, Tomasula explores the posthuman experience of narrative architecture.
In this essay, Jon Ippolito discusses the meaning of "friction" in the context of higher education, via an exploration of what friction entails, what varieties are beneficial for students, and what aren't. In doing so, he creates the starting point for conversation in "Friction and Education: The Discussion".
In this conversation, provoked by Jon Ippolito's essay "Does Education Really Require the F-Word?", researcher-educators Jon Ippolito, Annette Vee, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, and Marc Watkins discuss the role of friction in higher education after the dawn of generative AI.
In this provocation, Jon Ippolito questions what human capabilities AI extends and what capabilities it removes. In doing so, he charts the evolution of human writing processes alongside technology while speculating on what future human writing practices will look like.
Using Jon Ippolito's essay "Writing As Thinking—By Proxy" as a vehicle for discussion, researcher-educators Anna Mills, Mark C. Marino, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Annette Vee, Marc Watkins and Ippolito discuss the impact of AI's emergence in higher education and the many strategies they're employing to foster healthy writing practice with and without AI.
Daniel Johannes Rosnes' playful review of Kyle Booten's Gyms sees Rosnes at the mercy of an AI writing companion, who aides his reflection on the exercises Booten provides and the ways in which they reveal the potentialities and pitfalls of large language models.
In his speech from Joseph Tabbi's festschrift in May 2025, Daniel Johannes Rosnes discusses his brief time spent working with Tabbi, covering the trust and responsibility he was immediately offered to the importance of Tabbi's view of publishing as a collaborative effort, formed by a "network of people".
In this review, Deena Larsen provides a fantastic overview of N. Katherine Hayles' latest book, Bacteria to AI. By diving deep into the panpsychic realities of Hayles's views on cognition, Larsen ultimately questions whether electronic literature could be integral to understanding the umwelt(s) of AI.
Taking a trip to the first page of publications available on the current ebr website, Cary Wolfe frames electronic book review as an overlapping network of people connected over a lifetime by Joseph Tabbi. A network Wolfe himself became involved with after spotting a magazine notice in the 1990s.
In this recollection—published as part of the Celebrating Joseph Tabbi gathering—Kurt Heintz chronicles the early days of a strand of the electronic literature community as it moves from Chicago's Belmont Avenue to the UCLA'S 2002 ELO Conference. In doing so, Heintz argues that, then and now, Joseph Tabbi acts a vital point of convergence for the electronic literature field.