Richard Holeton

ETC Press • Carnegie Mellon University • 10th October 2022

"Putting the Pig Back Together Again: Dis(re)connection in 'Figurski at Findhorn on Acid'"

"The pigs become a metaphor for the novel—like the hypertext, they both have exactly 147 parts, parts which the characters disassemble and then must try to reassemble in the end when they finally come together 'all on the same page.' Likewise, the experience of reading the novel involves a constant (re)assembling of its disparate elements into scenes, as the reader traverses hypertext links and chooses navigational paths. . . "

NOMINATED FOR 2019 PUSHCART PRIZE • O:JA&L • 26th April 2018

"March Madness, 1974"

March 2, 1974. At 9:40 a.m. in Barcelona, Spain, Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich was garroted by the regime of dictator Francisco Franco. . .

Neon Garden • Mannequin Haus • 3rd February 2023

"Ham Again and Again"

With apologies to Samuel Beckett, Dr. Seuss, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. A short one-act play composed by erasure/redaction of Beckett's "Endgame."

Unincorporated • 10th January 2023

Podcast/Videocast: How Enhanced Learning Spaces Can Improve Enrollment

In this audio and video conversation for Unincorporated Inc.'s "Higher Ed Happy Hour" with CEO/Founder Ian Evenstar, I discuss issues in learning space design for higher education, including designing for inclusion and for active learning.

Electronic Literature Lab, WSU-Vancouver • 30th October 2022

"Figurski" for the eyes and ears!

The new cover page for my hypertext novel "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" features a direct link to John Barber's radio adaptation of the novel from Re-Imagined Radio ("LISTEN NOW"), now fully integrated into the site, all courtesy of the Electronic Literature Lab.

Gargoyle Magazine • 12th September 2022

"Counting"

The Goreman Gelders had been undeterred by the groans that followed every BEEP!, or the shivering of grak-enhanced suppressed laughter, or the tear-streaked cheeks of their audience. They resolutely completed the 33-slide filmstrip and opened the floor for questions, but hearing none, they quietly packed up their projector and screen, smoothed down their skinny ties and rebuttoned their nondescript suit jackets. “Nice tapestries,” said the younger Gelder, somewhat longingly . . .

Made with Craiyon.com

15th August 2022

"The Winograd Matrix"

In this interactive fiction, a gaming-industry couple are confined together in a near-future, post-pandemic world of Favatars, Syndics, and roving bands of Ferengi thugs. Unlike other Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type stories, the reader navigates the narrative by making grammatical (or meaning-making) choices rather than by choosing different actions. #interactive fiction #elit #pandemic fiction #experimental fiction

kaemi via itch.io

Interactive Fiction Database • 20th August 2022

Kaemi Velatet, "The Winograd Matrix" (Review)

"Like a lot of twentieth century futurism formalisms, the idea is conceptually entertaining, if not necessarily applicable, which means that it provides a perfect pomo playground. . . . This work echoes a lot of the tropes of academic-facing elit that I find annoying, in which there is more effort spent on conceptual innovation posturing than on the actual content."

Litro Magazine USA • 3rd July 2022

"Tunneling"

Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, and made of clay. “Do you think I want to die in here?” I say. #experimental fiction #futurism #survival #dystopian

Cult Magazine • 20th April 2022

"Chance Meeting Between Cambodian National Amputee Volleyball Team, Stephen Hawking, and Black Mothers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, 2006"

“The future… of humankind… is in outer space,” Hawking says, grinning obliquely. He tells them he’s been invited to orbit the earth on Sir Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo for free. “It won’t cost me… an arm and a leg.”