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2005

18-Dec-2005
Networking the Multitude

Linda C Brigham complicates Hardt and Negri's case for network resistance.

18-Dec-2005
Peter Hare's response to Lori Emerson

Peter Hare responds to Lori Emerson's review of Walter Benn Michaels.

18-Dec-2005
Putting the Brakes on the Žižek Machine

Eric Dean Rasmussen traces the contours of Hanjo Berressem's rigorous, bi-tempo reading of Organs without Bodies, which finds Žižek's philosophical buggering of Deleuze to be wanting.

18-Dec-2005
The Exemptions of Beauty

William Smith Wilson builds on his earlier ebr essay, "The End of Exemptions of Beauty," with this companion piece.

18-Dec-2005
The Machinic Multitude

Nick Spencer argues that the multitude is machinic, even without machines.

18-Dec-2005
What Would Žižek Do? Redeeming Christianity's Perverse Core

Jokes play a fundamental role in Slavoj Žižek's philosophizing. Is Žižek joking when he extols the virtues of Christianity to the Left? Eric Dean Rasmussen analyzes Žižek's pro-Christian proselytizing as attacks on modes of PC-ness - political correctness and perverse Christianity - that sustain an undesirable neoliberalism.

18-Dec-2005
Writing Futures: Hardt and Negri's Notation Politics

Aron Pease introduces this collection of essays by Linda Brigham, Caren Irr, William Wilson and Nick Spencer with a look at the multitude's programmability.

05-Nov-2005
Bass Resonance

1999 e-literature award winner John Cayley writes about Saul Bass of classic film title fame. A precursor to language arts innovators Jenny Holzer, Richard Kostelanetz, and Cayley himself, Bass may now be recognized as a poet in his own 'write,' important for a new generation of designwriters creating "graphic bodies of language," moving words and signifying images, in digital environments.

05-Nov-2005
Chris Stroffolino's response to Lori Emerson

Chris Stroffolino responds to Lori Emerson

05-Nov-2005
First Person, Games, and the Place of Electronic Literature

Scott Rettberg, responding to "The Pixel/The Line" (section 4 of First Person) wonders whether electronic writing isn't evolving into a subspecies of electronic art, one that uses words as material, 'just as sculptors use clay.'

05-Nov-2005
On Materialities, Meanings, and The Shape of Things

Lori Emerson reviews The Shape of the Signifier by Walter Benn Michaels.

05-Nov-2005
Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing

Now that the First Person essay collection is complete and the case has been made for computer games as a form of narrative, Brian Kim Stefans asks the fundamental questions - concerning what can be read as literature, and what really cannot.

05-Nov-2005
Sandy Baldwin's response to Lori Emerson

Sandy Baldwin responds to Lori Emerson.

21-May-2005
John Cayley's response

"Playing with play," John Cayley sets ludology on an even playing field with literature, but without literary scholarship's over-reliance on 'story,' 'closure,' and 'pleasure.'

20-Apr-2005
Feminism, Geography, and Chandra Mohanty

Julie Cupples reviews a retrospective collection of essays by Chandra Mohanty on the geopolitics of gender and race.

20-Apr-2005
New Readings

The reader steps to the fore in the final section of First Person, reconfigured and ready for interaction.

19-Apr-2005
Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia

Reading subjectivity into the software interface, N. Katherine Hayles offers a compelling case for computational authorship.

18-Apr-2005
How I Was Played by Online Caroline

Jill Walker's encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.

17-Apr-2005
Interactive Fiction

Which alias best fits interactive fiction? The nominees are: "Story," "Game," "Storygame," "Novel," "World," "Literature," "Puzzle," "Problem," "Riddle," and "Machine." Read, and decide.

17-Mar-2005
Above Us Only Sky: On Camus, U2, Lennon, Rock, and Rilke

Tim Keane on rock'n'roll awakenings and the lyrical existentialism of U2 (St Patrick's Day Special, 2005)