Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia
Katherine HaylesReading subjectivity into the software interface, N. Katherine Hayles offers a compelling case for computational authorship.
How I Was Played by Online Caroline
Jill WalkerJill Walker's encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.
Interactive Fiction
Nick MontfortWhich alias best fits interactive fiction?
The nominees are:
"Story," "Game," "Storygame," "Novel," "World,"
"Literature," "Puzzle," "Problem," "Riddle," and "Machine."
Read, and decide.
Above Us Only Sky: On Camus, U2, Lennon, Rock, and Rilke
Tim KeaneTim Keane on rock'n'roll awakenings and the lyrical existentialism of U2 (St Patrick's Day Special, 2005)
What Does a Very Large-Scale Conversation Look Like?
Warren Sack
Warren Sack uses The Conversation Map, a "graphical interface" that analyzes newsgroups and listservs, to analyze the possibilities of discourse analysis itself.
Community of People with No Time
Victoria Vesna
"Collaboration shifts": Victoria Vesna investigates the digital/physical limn, the compression of spacetime, and the condition of tensegrity in projects such as n0time and Datamining Bodies.
If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say?
Natalie Jeremijenko
The subtitle - "Using Voice Chips and Speech Recognition Chips to Explore Structures of Participation in Sociotechnical Scripts" - tells the story, partly. But there's more in store.
I’ll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy, or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?
Lisa YaszekFrom origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminsim.
From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities
Carolyn Guertin
Carolyn Guertin surveys the politics of Hacktivist women.