2005
Linda C Brigham complicates Hardt and Negri's case for network resistance.
Peter Hare responds to Lori Emerson's review of Walter Benn Michaels.
Eric Dean Rasmussen traces the contours of Hanjo Berressem's rigorous, bi-tempo reading of Organs without Bodies, which finds Žižek's philosophical buggering of Deleuze to be wanting.
William Smith Wilson builds on his earlier ebr essay, "The End of Exemptions of Beauty," with this companion piece.
Nick Spencer argues that the multitude is machinic, even without machines.
Aron Pease introduces this collection of essays by Linda Brigham, Caren Irr, William Wilson and Nick Spencer with a look at the multitude's programmability.
Chris Stroffolino responds to Lori Emerson
"Playing with play," John Cayley sets ludology on an even playing field with literature, but without literary scholarship's over-reliance on 'story,' 'closure,' and 'pleasure.'
The reader steps to the fore in the final section of First Person, reconfigured and ready for interaction.
Reading subjectivity into the software interface, N. Katherine Hayles offers a compelling case for computational authorship.
Which alias best fits interactive fiction? The nominees are: "Story," "Game," "Storygame," "Novel," "World," "Literature," "Puzzle," "Problem," "Riddle," and "Machine." Read, and decide.
Tim Keane on rock'n'roll awakenings and the lyrical existentialism of U2 (St Patrick's Day Special, 2005)
The subject of conversation enters the conversation that is First Person, here in section seven.
"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.
Cris Mazza on hijacking the terms of postfeminism.
A Wallace Stevens conference review from poet and critic Ravi Shankar.
David Nobes on the World Summit on the Information Society and the failure of some of its visionaries to see beyond tame and regimented applications of the Internet.
From origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminsim.
geniwate writes along with sexless software agents and dismantles the gender politics of the programming man and his machine.