After the Post
Daniel PundayFor Daniel Punday, Bernard Siegert's historical materialism - a difficult synthesis of historical, literary, and institutional analysis - falls somewhere between Derrida and Foucault. But see also the review in ebr by historian Richard John, who considers Siegert in the line of Walter Ong, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Harold Innis.
Webarts
Joseph TabbiIn spite of the millennial call for an end to issues in Winter y2k, ebr11 - a new issue - went online at the turn of the year 2000/2001. There would be yet another issue a year later ("Music/Sound/Noise") before the transition to the new interface could be completed.
German TV Troubles
Geoffrey Winthrop-YoungGeoffrey Winthrop-Young takes the outside perspective on German media studies.
The Runoff: A Simple Electoral Reform
Philip WohlstetterEvery crank has an idea. Every American is a crank. Philip Wohlstetter is an American, therefore - well, you get the idea.
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star
Nick MontfortNick Montfort reviews Espen J. Aarseth's Cybertext, which stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts that Aarseth discusses are included.
Lexia to Perplexia:
Talan Memmotthypertext? cybertext? hypermedia? webart? while new media critics debate the terms, Talan Memmott has produced the thing itself, a creative use of applied technology.
False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters
Tom LeClairTom LeClair surveys six gargantuan texts—both hyper- and print—and finds that size is not all that matters.
Not Browsing but Reading: Magazines and Books Online
Adrian ShaughnessyPerusing websites pertaining to literary matters, Eye magazine cites HTML's "gaptoothed rawness" as a hindance to readability in ebr (prior to the journal's redesign).
Constrained Thinking: From Network to Membrane
Paul HarrisPaul Harris examines the theoretical aspects of constrained thinking in the age of electronic textuality (in 2000 words, natch!)
The Education of Adams (Henry) / ALAMO
Paul BraffortPaul Braffort studies constrained writing from Henry Adams to Braffort's own ALAMO project, and presents his findings in the form of a Triolet (between 1999 and 2000 words)
Nothing Less and Nothing More: The Oulipo Compendium
Joseph TabbiAlain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity.
Translation by James Stevens