Але про ці теми мало говорили. Чому? Як на мене, так сталося через те, що в наших комуністичних країнах не було історії: ми мали не історію, а ідеологію – себто історію, інтерпретовану так, як хотілося партії. А це вже не історія.

the book is dead, long live the link

Emerson writes in her blog-post “On e-literature as a field” that “what did not exist until the founding of the Electronic Literature Organization in 1999 (thanks to Scott Rettberg, Robert Coover, and Jeff Ballowe) is a name, a concept, even a brand with which a remarkably diverse range of digital writing practices could identify: electronic literature.”

Put simply, Electronic Literature is considered a "born digital" art form with unique approaches to thinking about and working with digital technologies for the purpose of creating literary art.

The confrontation with technology at the level of creation is what distinguishes electronic literature from, for example, e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other products of print authors “going digital.”