What Does a Very Large-Scale Conversation Look Like?
Warren Sack
Warren Sack uses The Conversation Map, a "graphical interface" that analyzes newsgroups and listservs, to analyze the possibilities of discourse analysis itself.
Community of People with No Time
Victoria Vesna
"Collaboration shifts": Victoria Vesna investigates the digital/physical limn, the compression of spacetime, and the condition of tensegrity in projects such as n0time and Datamining Bodies.
If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say?
Natalie Jeremijenko
The subtitle - "Using Voice Chips and Speech Recognition Chips to Explore Structures of Participation in Sociotechnical Scripts" - tells the story, partly. But there's more in store.
I’ll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy, or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?
Lisa YaszekFrom origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminsim.
From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities
Carolyn Guertin
Carolyn Guertin surveys the politics of Hacktivist women.
Writing as a Woman: Annie Abrahams’ e-writing
Lisa Joyce
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.
Permission to Read
Bill Stobb"Rather than gathering in the South Ballroom for the plenary, we read into gardens, playrooms, cars, stores, home offices, and kitchen tables. These sites are not homey, though, in any Palmolive way." Bill Stobb reviews a collection of writers who consider the complexities of artmaking and motherhood.
Tank Girl, Postfeminist Media Manifesto
Elyce HelfordElyce Helford frames Tank Girl as a portrait of the postfeminist woman: hyper-individualist and hyper-sexual - a woman who is quite comfortable in popular cinema but not so much so in reality.
The Cheshire Cat’s Grin
Diana LobbDiana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Diana LobbDiana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.