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Tending the Garden Plot: Victory Garden and Operation Enduring…
Dave Ciccoricco returns to Stuart Moulthrop, considers Operation Enduring Freedom (2003) in light of Operation Desert Storm (1991), and consults the annals of World War II for a likely source of "Victory Garden," the title of Moulthrop's 1991 network fiction on the Gulf War.
Diane Gromala’s response (excerpt)
Cyberpractitioner Diane Gromala celebrates virtual immersion's unsteady body-knowledge.
Critical Simulation
Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.
A Remediation’s Remediation?
Jan Baetens looks 'through' and 'at' Bolter and Gromala's Windows and Mirrors and finds a foggy vision.
Optical Media Archaeologies
Anthony Enns juxtaposes two models of German media theory in reviewing new works by Oliver Grau and Friedrich Kittler.