An art installation as much as an "issue," the original site for ebr4, Critical Ecologies, used variations on a concrete poem by Daniel Wenk to guide readers through the "green" and "gray" essays. Another innovation was the introduction of the riposte section.

Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.

Sandy Baldwin on music in the new media ecology.

Paul Harris hybridizes the terms of hypertextual discourse and takes it to a higher power.

Thomas Cohen on ecotourism in Bolivia and discovering the post-humans of the past.

Linda Brigham reviews the Spring and Fall 1995 issues of Cultural Critique.

Diane Goodman on the anthology that helped put the term "postfeminism" into circulation.

Lidia Yukman describes the experience of teaching people of differing backgrounds.

Elisabeth Sheffield on the implications of the anthology that helped to put the term "postfeminsim" into circulation.

Dodie Bellamy gets to the "dirty parts" of contemporary fiction.

Todd E. Napolitano on the kitsch of on-line journals, most of which have flashed and disappeared since they were panned here, in the Fall 1996 ebr.

Greg Dyer steals glances at women('s) writing on the World Wide Web.

August Tarrier reviews the 1994 film, Bad Girls.

Joe Amato on the Social Text controversy.