1997
on the ghost in the machine: the font as spiritual medium in CD-ROM poetry design
On the present and future of hypertext poetics (circa 1997).
A cyber (hyper) text reading through Copeland, Gibson, and Christopher Dewdney, with breaks for speculation on form and opacity. Is there a manifesto buried in here? You decide.
Steven Kellert on being "in favor of universals."
1996
Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.
An art installation as much as an "issue," the original site for ebr4, Critical Ecologies, used variations on a concrete poem by Daniel Wenk to guide readers through the "green" and "gray" essays. Another innovation was the introduction of the riposte section.
Thomas Cohen on ecotourism in Bolivia and discovering the post-humans of the past.
Paisley Livingston on Stanislaw Lem and the history and philosphy of Virtual Reality.
Todd E. Napolitano on Going Gonzo: Following the Trail of the WWWench
Paul Harris hybridizes the terms of hypertextual discourse and takes it to a higher power.
Sandy Baldwin on music in the new media ecology.
Dodie Bellamy gets to the "dirty parts" of contemporary fiction.
Martin Rosenberg discusses Kiki Smith's feminist visual art and cognitive science.
Having women in power won't automatically make for caring, sensitive environmental policies as Stacy Alaimo implies in her review of Carolyn Merchant and Val Plumwood.
Lisa Joyce critiques the rash of historical fiction by women, circa 1996.
Cris Mazza sends in her introduction to the follow-up volume of Chick-Lit, No Victims.
Todd E. Napolitano on the kitsch of on-line journals, most of which have flashed and disappeared since they were panned here, in the Fall 1996 ebr.