Intersection and Struggle: Poetry In a New Landscape
Brandon BarrBrandon Barr considers Loss Glazier's attempt at a hypertext poetics that moves beyond the link.
Tales of Almost
Linda CarroliLinda Carolli on the third hybrid collection by Michael Joyce, a work (like the technological landscape it's about) at once industrial and informatic, essayistic and narrative, technical and autobiographical.
Metaphysics after the Western Wall Has Come Down
Amy Elias
Polymythic Personalistic Organicism, Biocentric Egalitarianism, and the Postmodern Return to Religion.
Cyberlaw and Its Discontents
GeniwateSetting one scholar's legalistic solutions against texts by cyber-critics and posts by netizens and web artists, geniwate looks at the issue of copyright law online.
Slow, Spare, and Painful
Steffen HantkeSteffen Hantke reviews the reviewers of Don DeLillo's Body Artist, dispelling the notion that, after Underworld, the shorter book is necessarily a slighter one.
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.