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.
Writing as a Woman: Annie Abrahams’ e-writing
Lisa Joyce
Is there such a thing as womens' writng? Or, for that matter, womens' media? Elisabeth Joyce moves through the work of Annie Abrahams and writes against restrictive domestications of electronic media.
Permission to Read
Bill Stobb"Rather than gathering in the South Ballroom for the plenary, we read into gardens, playrooms, cars, stores, home offices, and kitchen tables. These sites are not homey, though, in any Palmolive way." Bill Stobb reviews a collection of writers who consider the complexities of artmaking and motherhood.
Tank Girl, Postfeminist Media Manifesto
Elyce HelfordElyce Helford frames Tank Girl as a portrait of the postfeminist woman: hyper-individualist and hyper-sexual - a woman who is quite comfortable in popular cinema but not so much so in reality.
The Cheshire Cat’s Grin
Diana LobbDiana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Diana LobbDiana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.
All of Us
William MajorWilliam Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.
Celebrating Complexity
Stephen SchryerStephen Schryer reviews Mark Taylor and casts a critical eye on the unconditional celebration of complexity.
The Pixel/The Line
Pat HarriganFor all the talk of cyber-difference, screens still behave like pages. The contributors in section six have developed, in response, a digital aesthetics unlike that of print.
Literal Art
John Cayley
John Cayley dadas up the digital, revealing similarities of type across two normally separate, unequal categories: image and text. "Neither lines nor pixels but letters," finally, unite.
Unusual Positions
Camille UtterbackCamille Utterback exposits "embodied interaction with symbolic spaces" – the body and language of digital art.