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2005

Tank Girl, Postfeminist Media Manifesto

Elyce 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.

2004

06-Dec-2004
The Cheshire Cat's Grin

Diana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.

05-Dec-2004
All of Us

William Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.

05-Dec-2004
The Emperor's New Clothes

Diana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.

05-Dec-2004
Visiting Wonderland

Katherine Hayles responds to Diana Lobb.

30-Nov-2004
The Pixel/The Line

For all the talk of cyber-difference, screens still behave like pages. The contributors in section six have developed, in response, a digital aesthetics unlike that of print.

27-Nov-2004
Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics

In this series of "media-element field explorations," Bill Seaman suggests configurations for the shape of the virtual artist-author to come.

08-Nov-2004
Past Futures, Future's Past

The second in a series of two essays developing the parallels between Iraq and the Peloponnesian Wars, between classical Empire and postmodern Imperialism.

07-Nov-2004
Andrew Stern's response (excerpt)

Andrew Stern contrasts the "drama" of Façade against cognitive realism.

07-Nov-2004
Mark Bernstein and Diane Greco respond in turn

Mark Bernstein and Diane Greco address "the utility question."

06-Nov-2004
Card Shark and Thespis

Eastgate Systems alumns Diane Greco and Mark Bernstein explain two "exotic tools for hypertext narrative."

06-Nov-2004
Ken Perlin's response

Ken Perlin finds hypertext templates useful as they are used, not in tool form.

05-Nov-2004
Camille Utterback's response

Camille Utterback figures the mouse click as weakly interactive.

05-Nov-2004
Moving Through Me as I Move

Techno-poet Stephanie Strickland surveys the digital artistic practices of her peers and presents a "paradigm for interaction."

05-Nov-2004
Rita Raley's response (excerpt)

Rita Raley praises twin interactivities.

05-Nov-2004
Stephanie Strickland responds in turn

Stephanie Strickland makes marks an intervention across the "I."

04-Nov-2004
Douglas and Hargadon respond in turn

Choosing between James Joyce and Stephen King means choosing between engagement and immersion. Or does it?

04-Nov-2004
Henry Jenkins responds

Who says hypertext readers have more brains than gamers? Not Henry Jenkins.

04-Nov-2004
Richard Schechner's response (excerpt)

Are actors really acting when they're characters? How about characters - can they really act? Richard Schechner asks twice.

22-Oct-2004
Satisfying Ambiguity

From the Oracle of Delphi to the Wizard of Oz, it is clear that "if we attack we will destroy a great empire." The only question that remains, is which one?