Embodying the World
Lance OlsenLance Olsen reviews Shelley Jackson's first print collection.
Architecture as a Narrative Medium
Christine BucherChristine Bucher, reviewing Beatriz Columnina, considers the narrative and photographic dimensions of interiors designed by Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier.
Return to Twilight
David CiccoriccoDave Ciccoricco returns to Michael Joyce's 1997 novel so as to avoid bringing hypertext criticism to a premature closure.
The Pleasure (and Pain) of Link Poetics
Scott RettbergEntering the cyberdebates, Scott Rettberg moves beyond technique and proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, in which an author's intention and poetic purpose have a role.
Language Liquor
Scott HermansonA revaluation and appreciation of Stanley Elkin on the occasion of the Dalkey Archive reprinting of four separate volumes.
Wireless Communities?
Matthew G. KirschenbaumMatt Kirschenbaum, a longtime ebr contributor who actually does some programming and much reading in electronic environments, sought to ground the discussion.
The Real
Daniel WenkDaniel Wenk was living in Paris on a Fellowship during the initial discussions. He would eventually give the discussions their name, End Construction!, after treating a street sign in Chicago. Using black electrical tape the same width as the sign lettering, he formed an exclamation mark and so turned the statement into a command.
Reading the Reader
Eugene ThackerEugene Thacker, who went on to help design the Alt-X e-book series, suggested some models for ebr designers to consider.
The Interface As A Form Of Artificial Life
Linda C BrighamIn response to Bill Wilson's provocation (about not "getting through" to a younger audience), Linda Brigham introduces a cognitive perspective and closes with a metaphor from music - eventually the design-governing metaphor for the site design.
A Nice Derangement of Epigraphs
William Smith WilsonWilliam S. Wilson, author of the story collection, Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka, audited the discussions on the new ebr Interface and posted a series of letters (backchannel), under the header, Why I Don't End Construction. His reasons have to do with audience building.
Everyone An Artist?
Lisa JoyceElisabeth Joyce, co-editor of ebr3, Writing (Post) Feminism, entered the discussion on the new interface after the initiating posts by ebr design editor Anne Burdick, publisher Mark Amerika, editor Joseph Tabbi, and barker Rob Wittig. Joyce's post drew our very first gloss - by ebr contributing editor Steve Tomasula.
How Are We Going To Kill Information?
Linda C BrighamResponding to the potential for having "all of ebr current" and even viewable on a single screen, Brigham wonders if it might not be better to kill off content. Brigham's model is the Blair Witch project.
scholarship with attitude
Steve TomasulaSteve Tomasula, who co-edited the two "image + narrative" issues of ebr in 1997, came in at the tailend of the discussions, when we stopped talking and began the three-year-long process of buiding the database/interface.
Against Autopoiesis
Brian LennonBrian Lennon, who at the time of the discussions was reviewing a book on experimental poetry and poetics, joined the END CONSTRUCTION discussion as its first phase was winding down.