Reading the L.A. Landscape
Claire RasmussenClaire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.
When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Voice, Vision, and the Prosthetic Subject in Dancer in the Dark
Cary WolfeCary Wolfe investigates why the reviewers were so rattled by the Lars von Trier film, and in the process puts Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler into conversation.
Primary Sounds
Allison HunterReflections on Red/Yellow/Blue in the context of Music/Sound/Noise.
New Beatle/Beach Boy Facts
David GreenbergerReflection on the two titans of entertainment and enlightenment.
Network Voices
Mark AmerikaFifteen artists working along the blurry boundary of music, sound, and noise launch Alt-X Audio. curator: Mark Amerika.
Litmixer: The Literary Remediator
Trace ReddellWith his software groovebox, Trace Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation.
The Sonic Spectrum
Elise KermaniElise Kermani writes about her work with sound and invites readers to locate sounds of their own on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. database programming: Allison Hunter and Ewan Branda.
What Cybertext Theory Can’t Do
Katherine HaylesA reluctant response to Markku Eskelinen's "Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying," where Hayles discusses her admiration for Espen Aarseth's work... and the limitations within it she has perceived.
Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying
Markku EskelinenConsidering hypertext as a subset of cybertexts, Markku Eskelinen offers seven examples of how to implement Espen Aarseth's seven-fold typology.
Of Tea Cozy and Link
Marjorie C. LuesebrinkMarjorie Coverley Luesebrink performs an autopsy on the hypertextual corpse.
Cyber|literature and Multicourses: Rescuing Electronic Literature from Infanticide
Katherine HaylesIn response to Nick Montfort's review of Cybertext, N. Katherine Hayles coins an alternative term, cyber|literature.
Unfolding Laramée
Allison HunterAllison Hunter shows how an artist can be fully contemporary without digitizing, streaming, or projecting imagery. Presenting jacquard looms and punch card technologies from the 1950s, difference engines and magnetic core memory stacks, silicon chips in wood housing and digital code on 18th-century woven fabric, Eve Laramee manipulates history like a medium.
New = Old, Old = New
Jan Baetens
Jan Baetens argues that Chris Ware's print-based comic book, Jimmy Corrigan, has already produced the revolution longed for by Scott McCloud - a revolution, however, that will not be digitized.
Telling Tales: Shaping Artists’ Myths
John BrunettiChicago art critic John Brunetti reviews The Truth on Tape, a survey of Daniel Wenk's art, and Black Mountain College's Dossier Ray Johnson.