critical ecologies
Free Culture and Our Public Needs
Francis Raven reviews Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.
The Cheshire Cat’s Grin
Diana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Diana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.
All of Us
William Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.
Celebrating Complexity
Stephen Schryer reviews Mark Taylor and casts a critical eye on the unconditional celebration of complexity.
Form and Emotion
Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.
Meditations on the Blip: a review
Lisette Gonzales reviews a book of essays by Matthew Fuller that examines the way we are programmed by software.
Mister Squishy, c’est moi: David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion
Kiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.
a Joseph McElroy festschrift
Andrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.