cybernetics
A User’s Guide to the New Millennium
Over 800 pages, the New Media Reader does not exhaust its subject; it even sets the stage for a companion volume.
Diane Gromala’s response (excerpt)
Cyberpractitioner Diane Gromala celebrates virtual immersion's unsteady body-knowledge.
Moulthrop responds in turn
U.S. cybernetic pragmatisim and practical Net expertise interest Moulthrop (and his auditors) on "second thought."
Illogic of Sense | The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix: Introduction
Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye introduce the collection of essays, appearing here in the electropoetics thread, from the Alt-x e-book The Illogic of Sense.
Post-Prognostics
How does one write science fiction when the atom bomb (and later 9/11) makes the future seem impossible to predict? Justin Roby reviews Paul Youngquist's Cyberfiction: After the Future, which explores how postwar "cy-fi" critiqued life in the age of cybernetic control systems.