Simon Penny recalls that the origins of the human-computer interface, politicized by a military heritage, are now explored by artist-enigineers who chaperone fragmentation and dissent.

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

Eugene Thacker sees ethical acting as a potential stumbling block, one that trips up technological complicity.

The "cognitive entailments" of a reader, or "interactor," are where Katherine Hayles redirects the new aesthetics of electronic textuality.

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