What Lies Beneath?
Gene Kannenberg, JrGene Kannenberg, Jr. finds the most well-publicized comic by one of America's most significant cartoonists to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but finally all too true to its title: the characters and situations in David Boring are in fact boring.
Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Following Katherine Hayles, Matthew Kirschenbaum agrees that materiality matters.
Re-Clearing the Ground: A Response to Linda Brigham
Mark HansenMark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham's review of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing.
Responding to Kermani’s “Wak Auf.”
Skip LaplanteIn her Sonic Spectrum survey, Elise Kermani invited readers to locate sounds on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. Here, Skip LaPlante responds with an autobiography in music, sound, and noise.
Accretive Dreams, Junk Narrativity, & Orphaned Excess in Moderation
Lance OlsenLance Olsen reviews hypertext writing, past and present, by Robert Arellano.
Further Notes From the Prison-House of Language
Linda C BrighamLinda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.
A Poetics of the Link
Jeff ParkerJeff Parker contributes to the ongoing debate on electropoetics and invites readers to post their own link types and descriptions.
Mindful of Multiplicity
Linda CarroliLinda Carroli reviews Michael Joyce on networked culture, whose emergence changes our ideas of change.
Stuttering Screams and Beastly Poetry
Allison Hunter
Allison Hunter writes on Douglas Kahn, a modern musicologist who takes in the noise of modern battle, recordings from the tops of trains and the interiors of coalmines, and the musicality of undigitized everyday noise.
Merely Extraordinary Beings
Elizabeth Jane Wall HindsElizabeth Wall Hinds reviews Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Black Memorial Fiction Prize and the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Hollywood Nomadology?
Linda C BrighamLinda Brigham offers a Deleuzean take on Independence Day.
Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia
Jaishree OdinJaishree K. Odin on the hyperfiction of M.D. Coverley.
A Disorganized Multilingual A to Z Poem
Ray Federmannoise poem: Raymond Federman. audio recording and production: Eric Dean Rasmussen and Shaun Sandor
Music/Sound/Noise
Cary WolfeThe msn thread originated in the Fall of 2001 as an ebr special co-edited by Cary Wolfe, Mark Amerika, and Joseph Tabbi.
Reading the L.A. Landscape
Claire RasmussenClaire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.