Some members of the list might find this special journal issue interesting. Best, Paul Benzon ---- *Media-N: The Aesthetics of Erasure* http://median.newmediacaucus.org/the_aesthetics_of_erasure/ Against the backdrop of a longstanding practice of ‘erasure’ both in artistic and critical work, co-guest editors Paul Benzon and Sarah Sweeney take up challenging questions related to the aesthetics of erasure today in the digital era. They investigate new meanings and the relevance of said practice within twenty-first century contemporary contexts typically defined by digital knowledge production, preservation, and sharing. With a number of tantalizing questions in mind, the guest editors have assembled texts and visual essays by fourteen authors: Joshua Craze; Seth Ellis; Kaja Marczewska; Justin Berry; David Gyscek; Derek Beaulieu; Amaranth Borsuk, Jesper Juul, and Nick Montfort; Torsa Ghosal; William Basinski; Ella Klik and Diana Kamin; and Matthew Schilleman. Their contributions give expression to five sites of inquiry mapped by the editors within the expansive practice of erasure – Power, Capital, Signal and Noise, Technology and Archive – a topography in which issues of technology and materiality are explored. Paul Benzon Department of English 1127 Anderson Hall Temple University 1801 N. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 [log in to unmask] www.paulbenzon.com twitter.com/pbenzon ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org