The debates on cybertext—known at the time as the ‘cyberdebates’—were unintentionally sparked by Markku Eskelinen during a talk at the Digital Arts and Culture ’99 conference. Their appearance on electronic book review began with Nick Montfort’s ‘Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star’; a review of Espen Aarseth’s Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, the origin of the ‘cybertext’ neologism and its related theory. Our February 2025 newsletter provides an overview of the debate that followed, with its many twists and turns.

If you are reading this, please help! I’m stuck inside this gloss and I can’t get out.

Read Lea Laura N. Michelsen’s review of Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World.

From the year 1999: Philippe Bootz celebrates the 10-year anniversary of alire, an innovative digital journal. Translation by James Stevens.

Almost 20 years ago, Mark Marino’s Critical Code Studies manifesto in electronic book review called for scholars to explore the extra-functional significance of computer source code in a new field he called Critical Code Studies (Marino, 2006a)