“Play” that more and more comes to resemble work: in a riposte to an article published in ebr’s Second Person volume, Jan Van Looy argues that gaming is just the thing for preparing a generation of future office workers.

Neil Badmington has also reviewed Wolfe’s book for ebr.

Wolfe’s critical engagement with music goes back at least to 2001, when he co-edited an ebr thread, Music/Sound/Noise.

John Bruni has also reviewed Wolfe’s collection for ebr.

Curtis White contributed to the second issue of ebr. Curtis White contributed to the second issue of ebr.

In Critical Environments, Wolfe also explores the theoretical and pragmatic similarities and differences between Luhmannian systems theory and contemporary Marxist philosophy. On pages 147-149, his theoretical sympathies with Luhmann and his political sympathies with Fredric Jameson seem to pull him in opposite, perhaps contradictory directions.

This essay is part of a series on Critical Code Studies distilled from a six week online discussion. As each week is published on ebr, it will be indexed here. Week 1: Introduction by Mark Marino Discussion This essay is part of a series on Critical Code Studies distilled from a six week online discussion. As each week is published on ebr, it will be indexed here. Week 1: Introduction by Mark Marino Discussion

This essay is a general introduction to a series on Critical Code Studies distilled from a six week online discussion. As each week is published on ebr, it will be indexed here. Week 1: Introduction Discussion Week 2: Introduction Discussion Week 3: Introduction Discussion

In “Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework,” Rita Raley analyzes the poetics of Mez’s “neologistic net.wurked language… m[ez]ang.elle,” which incorporates “made-up code language as a mode of artistic composition and everyday communication.”

Worden’s reading of the show as a staging ground for neoliberal individualism echoes a number of critiques of contemporary gaming culture, particularly Jan Van Looy’s reading of the player as uomo economicus in Dungeons & Dragons.