A field-defining collection published in March 2004 by the MIT Press, First Person – the book – already included in its pages numerous sustained critiques of its own positions. Remediated in ebr through the Summer of 2004, the book’s illustrations have been recast in color and the critique has been taken to a new level. A relation of games and narrative? . . . for first order practitioners, that’s a given. The next-level relation – between game/narrative and literary tradition? …. that’s up to critics.

Recalling that Donna Haraway’s Cyborg was never meant to be a wired, blissed-out bunny, Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills recover the political dimension in socialist-feminist thought. Their five-volume edited series, “The Politics of Information,” brings class back into cultural studies, considers the Web as crucial to the expanding ‘informatics of domination,’ and recovers the cyborg as a key figure for an entire world of labor and lifeways. Recalling that Donna Haraway’s Cyborg was never meant to be a wired, blissed-out bunny, Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills recover the political dimensio… continue

Postfeminism remains an awkward yet laudable movement among younger women, and women no longer young – one which embraces pluralism and homosexuality, one which expects that women are just as involved in the electronic frontier of the Web as men are. Postfeminism remains an awkward yet laudable movement among younger women, and women no longer young – one which embraces pluralism and homosexuality, one which expects that women are just as involved in the electronic frontier of the Web as men are.

For many who are committed to working in electronic environments, an electronic “review” might better be named a “retrospective,” a mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. There’s a technological subtext to the declining prestige of authors and literary canons. To bring that subtext to the surface will be part of ebr’s agenda.

Postmodern politics (against the capitalist culture of postmodernity) after bosnia, kosovo, the 2001 U.S. election, 9/11, the 2004 expansion of the EU….