Infiltrate, animate, dominate. Lisette Gonzales reviews Derek Pell's Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion.

Paul Collins on collegiate content: syllabus, discussions, lectures, and all.

An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.

Part 2 of The Politics of Information, a collection that reintroduces class and materiality to the study of technocultures.

Tempering the myth of global variety, David Golumbia processes the dominance of English in digital environments - and a highly standardized English at that.

Lisa Nakamura questions Donna Haraway about race, speed, and the cyborg.

U.S. Steel chiefs and AOL-Time Warner executives span one hundred years of decimation wrapped in rhetoric. John Monberg annotates their enduring logics of expansion.

Nick Dyer-Witheford figures the place of video games in the global market, drawing on Marx's "species being" for scratch paper.

A call for (and example of) material studies of software from Matt Kirschenbaum, spurred by the Digital Arts and Culture conference, 2000.

Marc Bousquet introduces a forthcoming Altx critical e-book, hosted online by ebr, appearing in five sections through the Fall of 2003. A new ebr thread, Technocapitalism, is built around its concerns.

Charles Bernstein's reflections on populism, democracy, and authority in the turbulent waters of web discussion groups and other new Internet sites.

Katherine Wills' anti-interview with Mark Amerika about Internet art.

A first-person narrative of Hactivism, Performance, and growing up at the U.S./Mexico Border from Fran Ilich.

Bennett Voyles' retrospective on the apolitical Nineties, and the fate of democratic electronic activism without content.