Cyberdebates

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.