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New Media: Its Utility and Liability for Literature and for Life
This formulation by Joseph Tabbi is being reprinted with permission from the University of Minnesota Press's remixthebook. The original online version can be found here.
Histories of the Future
Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.
Sim Capital: General Intellect, World Market, Species Being, and the Video Game
Nick Dyer-Witheford figures the place of video games in the global market, drawing on Marx's "species being" for scratch paper.
Prospects for a Materialist Informatics: An Interview with Donna Haraway
Lisa Nakamura questions Donna Haraway about race, speed, and the cyborg.
What’s Left: Materialist Responses to the Internet
Urging adaptibility and breadth, Mark Poster takes issue with the niches bored by early Internet critiques.