“The count-down is complete; the line has served its time. In this spirit of millennial closure, the Winter 1999/2000 issue of ebr will be the last written under the constraint of periodical publication.”    >--- introduction ebr10 guest editor: Jan Baetens ebr10 writing under constraint --------------------------------------- The Education of Adams (Henry) / ALAMO Paul Braffort studies constrained writing from Henry Adams to Braffort's own ALAMO project, and presents his findings in the form of a Triolet (between 1999 and 2000 words) --------------------------------------- Constrained Thinking: From Network to Membrane Paul Harris examines the theoretical aspects of constrained thinking in the age of electronic textuality --------------------------------------- Toward a General Theory of the Constraint Bernardo Schiavetta: a definition (in 2000 words) --------------------------------------- A Roundup of Constrained Writing on the Web Stéphane Susana visits web sites that take seriously the constraints of the electronic medium --------------------------------------- Mister Smathers a short fiction by Harry Mathews --------------------------------------- the second fold: electropoetics --------------------------------------- The Procedural Poetries of Joan Retallack Brian Lennon considers the aesthetic that Retallack has evolved out of a cybernetic sensibility - a formalism that does not impose authoritarian codes or repressive orders, but rather hacks a pattern out of the sheer data of everyday life: directories, menues, phone books, indexes, encyclopedia, and archives --------------------------------------- "Thorowly" American: Susan Howe's Guide to Orienteering in the Adirondacks Elisabeth Joyce reads Howe as a postfeminist Thoreau facing the dilemma that 'to inhabit a wilderness is to destroy it' --------------------------------------- British Poetry at Y2K John Matthias reports on the state of British poetry and its criticism (first in a series of overview essays for the year 2000) --------------------------------------- the third fold: critical ecologies --------------------------------------- Consilience Revisited Laura Dassow Walls reconsiders Consilience and finds E. O. Wilson to be more Christian in outlook than the Reverend William Whewell, who originated the term, 'consilience' --------------------------------------- | | | ^   >--thREADs     reVIEWs--<