articles

2004

24-Jun-2004
Videogames of the Oppressed

Gonzalo Frasca's proposal for videogames that address "critical thinking, education, tolerance, and other trivial issues."

23-Jun-2004
Schizophrenia and Narrative in Artificial Agents

Phoebe Sengers discusses the Expressivator and socially situated AI.

02-Apr-2004
Bill Seaman's response

Bill Seaman hyphenates the "hybrid-languages" of Lexia to Perplexia.

08-Jan-2004
Eric Zimmerman's response

Eric Zimmerman modifies Gonzalo Frasca's game strategy with a strategic patch.

2003

07-Dec-2003
On the Globalization of Literature: Haruki Murakami, Tim O’Brien, and Raymond Carver

Reiichi Miura considers the worldwide reception of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and charts a course for a fiction where nationalism loses relevance.

10-Nov-2003
Women in the Web

Katie King on the challenges and rewards, in her own life and the lives of her students, that emerge when writing about personal encounters with technology.

03-Nov-2003
What Remains in Liam's Going

Pattern, absence, routine, return - Dave Ciccoricco mulls the shape(s) in Michael Joyce's new paper novel, Liam's Going

17-Jul-2003
Shadow Dance

In looking to the future of the 'electronic book,' Ciccoricco digs up some of ebr's manifesto-like remarks of old.

13-Jun-2003
The Contour of a Contour

Despite talk of endings and absences at Eastgate Systems, Dave Ciccoricco investigates continuities in the work of Michael Joyce and Mark Bernstein.

20-Apr-2003
Mimicries

Rone Shavers argues that making readers aware of subjugation - the strategy of Harold Jaffe's False Positive - exposes little and hardly changes our relation to power.

27-Mar-2003
The Materiality of Technotexts

A book about books conscious of their materiality, N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines draws praise from Raine Koskimaa for its own media consciousness, and blame for embodied emphasis.

2002

10-Sep-2002
The Code is not the Text (Unless It Is the Text)

An argument against the collapse of categories by an author who has, yes, himself perpetrated a few codeworks.

21-Jan-2002
Return to Twilight

Dave Ciccoricco returns to Michael Joyce's 1997 novel so as to avoid bringing hypertext criticism to a premature closure.

2001

18-Nov-2001
An Autopoietic Writing Machine?

Joseph Tabbi responds to posts from the journal design editor and publisher, using terms derived from an essay he was editing at the time. The audience database mentioned here was implemented for ebr11, wEBaRts, and further developed for the launch of End Construction! (Feb 2002)

17-Nov-2001
An Interface in Lieu of An Introduction

A note on the origins and development of ebr version 3.0, End Construction!

01-Sep-2001
Reading the L.A. Landscape

Claire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.

01-Sep-2001
Stuttering Screams and Beastly Poetry

Allison Hunter writes on Douglas Kahn, a modern musicologist who takes in the noise of modern battle, recordings from the tops of trains and the interiors of coalmines, and the musicality of undigitized everyday noise.

2000

The Procedural Poetries of Joan Retallack

Brian Lennon considers the aesthetic that Retallack has evolved out of a cybernetic sensibility - a formalism that does not impose authoritarian codes or repressive orders, but rather hacks a pattern out of the sheer data of everyday life: directories, menus, phone books, indexes, encyclopedias, and archives.

1999

30-Dec-1999
Materialities and the Raw Material of Latin Americanism

Shirin Shenassa situates Roman de la Campa's Latin Americanism within the critical discourses of the world's metropolitan centers and introduces a new thREAD into ebr's Internet Nation series

15-Mar-1999
A Migration Between Media

Joseph Tabbi reads both the book and the hypertext version of Strickland's True North.