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Before and After the Web: George P. Landow (interviewed by Harvey L. Molloy)

George Landow talks with Harvey Molloy about personal projects and future Web speculations.

The Fan’s Desire and Technopower
The Florida Research Ensemble and the Prospects for an Electronic Humanities

Chris Carter and Greg Ulmer dialogue through e-mails on the mission of the FRE.

Virtual Communities?: Public Spheres and Public Intellectuals on the Internet

Can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? A Marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel.

A Project for a New Consultancy

Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like in the new electracy.

Writing as a Woman: Annie Abrahams’ e-writing

Is there such a thing as womens' writng? Or, for that matter, womens' media? Elisabeth Joyce moves through the work of Annie Abrahams and writes against restrictive domestications of electronic media.

Scientists on the Margins
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.

Media, Genealogy, History

Matt Kirschenbaum reviews Remediation by Richard Grusin and Jay David Bolter.

A Language of the Ordinary, or the eLEET?

Dave Ciccoricco reviews Michael Joyce's novel of network culture, Was. Seeing an inversion of Russian formalism in Joyce's work, Ciccoricco explores how Joyce's novel attempts to "reconcile the polylinguistic, stylistic, and ludic difficulty" of the text with an "affinity for the quotidian."