The Censoring of Burn!
DeeDee HalleckThe story of an activist website's shutdown, as told by DeeDee Halleck, with interstitial e-mails.
Illegal Knowledge: Strategies for New Media Activism
Ricardo DominguezA discussion of net.activism, net.tactics, and strategy featuring Bruce Simon, Geert Lovink, Chris Carter, and Ricardo Dominguez.
Stream of Thought
Andrew WalserOn the occasion of a new novel by Joseph McElroy and the Overlook Press reissue of McElroy's earlier work, Andrew Walser initiates a revaluation.
“History is not what happened but what we think about it”
Alicia M. MillerFurther on McElroy and a novel that reflects the mind's helter-skelter workings while (for the protagonist) creating many occasions for avoidance.
Shadow Dance
David CiccoriccoIn looking to the future of the 'electronic book,' Ciccoricco digs up some of ebr's manifesto-like remarks of old.
McElroy’s Metropolitan Constructions
Steffen HantkeShells, Tents, Slaps, Shocks: Steffen Hantke works slowly, from within, to get at McElroy's nonlinear narrative.
Histories of the Future
Steven Shaviro
Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.
Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy
Tiziana TerranovaIn between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.
The Contour of a Contour
David Ciccoricco
Despite talk of endings and absences at Eastgate Systems, Dave Ciccoricco investigates continuities in the work of Michael Joyce and Mark Bernstein.
Histories of the Present
Darren ToftsDarren Tofts reviews a popularization by Marie O'Mahony and an auto-critique of cyberculture by Andrew Murphie and John Potts.
Words and Syllables
Sven PhilippSven Philipp on Cosmopolis and what seems to be a new stage in the critical reception of DeLillo.
Stuart Moulthrop’s response
Stuart MoulthropStuart Moulthrop complicates the idea of self-contained games.
The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature
R. M. BerryRalph Berry on Avant-Garde fiction and the future of the page.
Narratological Amphibiousness, or: Invitation to the Covert History of Possibility
Lance OlsenLance Olsen continues the FC/2 authors' discussion of Carole Maso's AVA and adds some bits on Laird Hunt, Mark Z Danielewski, Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, and other recent U.S. avant-gardists.