Everything in the art world is built on top of something else, an ancient city where all the buildings are supported by ruins lying upon further ruins; ruins all the way down.

It’s not exclusively electronic, nor is it necessarily literary, but it’s all exhibited under the banner of electronic literature.

In Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, one of the first scholarly works on the subject to be translated into English, cultural theorist Hiroki Azuma associated the appearance of Japan’s otaku communities—groups of like-minded pop culture fans—with the postmodern breakdown of societal grand narratives.

The press preview for this year’s Volta art fair happened to be held at the same time as both the Armory Show preview and a major winter storm (the question of which was worse is open for debate).

Now in its second year at Chashama’s space in the former Condé Nast building in Times Square, SPRING/BREAK Art Show continues its mission to be “New York City’s curator-driven art fair” to debatable degrees of success.

The Friezes of Bob Clyatt

This “Word” from the Bible translation came from the original Greek term, “Logos”, in earlier manuscripts. For much of the world today, this term, “Logos”, through which “all things are made” is a different entity entirely.