Writing Under Constraint
Joseph Tabbiebr10, a satisfyingly even number published at the turn of the millennium, seemed at the time like the right occasion for calling an end to issues altogether. In the event, we would not manage to eliminate issues until February 2002 - that palindromic month and year, as satisfying in its way as the y2k.
Seeking the (Black Hole) Sun
Cynthia DavidsonCynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe
Toward a General Theory of the Constraint
Bernardo SchiavettaBernardo Schiavetta: a definition (in 2000 words)
The Procedural Poetries of Joan Retallack
Brian LennonBrian Lennon considers the aesthetic that Retallack has evolved out of a cybernetic sensibility - a formalism that does not impose authoritarian codes or repressive orders, but rather hacks a pattern out of the sheer data of everyday life: directories, menus, phone books, indexes, encyclopedias, and archives.
Fed Ex Un Ltd
Jan BaetensJan Baetens reviews the Raymond Federman Recyclopedia, a book whose humour - and evident bad taste - raise it above its own formidable constraints.
Consilience Revisited
Laura WallsLaura Dassow Walls reconsiders Consilience and finds E. O. Wilson to be more Christian in outlook than the Reverend William Whewell, who originated the term, 'consilience'
Conspiracy and the Populist Imagination
Timothy MelleyTimothy Melley reviews Mark Fenster on conspiracies in fact and fiction and finds evidence against the assumption that only nonexistent conspiracies produce conspiracy theories.
Taking It IS Dishing It Out: The Late Modern Logic of Fight Club
Linda C BrighamLinda Brigham breaks the first rule of Fight Club and talks about what the movie industry keeps secret - not male masochism, anti-corporate terrorism, self-help, or even heterosexual anxiety, but how best to deliver a commodity that doesn't act like one.
Hope for Empowerment, Fear of Control
Jan Van LooyJan van Looy reviews Silvio Gaggi on hypertext fiction up to the early '90s.
Materialities and the Raw Material of Latin Americanism
Shirin ShenassaShirin Shenassa situates Roman de la Campa's Latin Americanism within the critical discourses of the world's metropolitan centers and introduces a new thREAD into ebr's Internet Nation series
The Medial Turn
Joseph TabbiJoseph Tabbi identifies a shift in U.S. criticism that has taken place in the eight years separating Susan Strehle's Fiction in the Quantum Universe and John Johnston's Information Multiplicity.
Friedrich Kittler’s Technosublime
Bruce ClarkeBruce Clarke reviews the new translation of Grammophone, Film, Typewriter, a requiem and good-riddance for the era of so-called Man.
Digital vs. Traditional?
Luc HermanLuc Herman reviews the collection, Cyberspace Textuality by Marie-Laure Ryan, and warns against the creation of a false dichotomy between the digital and traditional print text.
Jan Baetens asks Remediation or Premeditation?
Jan BaetensNoting that media are not only proposed to readers but also imposed on customers, Jan Baetens introduces Adorno into the debates on remediation.