Walter Benn Michaels argues that Hardt and Negri make poverty into an identity to be recognized, rather than a condition to be eradicated. (Michaels’s _Shape of the Signifier_ is reviewed in ebr by Lori Emerson)

Walter Benn Michaels argues that Hardt and Negri make poverty into an identity to be recognized, rather than a condition to be eradicated. (Michaels’s _Shape of the Signifier_ is reviewed in ebr by Lori Emerson)

Nick Dyer-Witheford offers a similar perspective when considering the production of collective subjectivity and “species being” in the non-iron realm of video games and virtual play.

RTMark’s “hacktivism” and corporate parody represent one attempt to -if not abolish – at least sabotage the corporate naturalization of property rights.

Joseph McElroy writes, “Water . . . is one of our properties, passing through, as if we were one of its. And if we are one of its properties – for it helps us live – where can that take us?” McElroy extends a number of water narratives, strategies, and reflections toward just such a revitalized commons in water.

Systems theory provides another way to think about connected organizational forms that escapes this binary. Linda Brigham’s review of Cultural Critique’s special issues on “The Politics of Systems and Environments” introduces the topic.

William Smith Wilson speaks similarly of a ‘world-poem,’ in reference to _Multitude_. – eds.

ebr has an essay by Marta Werner on the material look of Dickinson’s late papers; and a review of Jerome McGann, the leading advocate of a textual criticism, is scheduled for early 2006.

Readers of Hayles’ book should seek out a copy of the prescient, more wide-ranging volume by Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, Rational Geomancy: The kids of the book-machine : the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982) (Talonbooks, 1992).

Brian Kim Stefans, in his November 2005 essay responding to _First Person_, “The Pixel/The Line,” suggests that moving words may be hard to square with (lower-case) literary art generally. Stefans cites reasons having to do not with textuality and authority, but meaning.