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2005

08-Mar-2005
Beyond Chat

The subject of conversation enters the conversation that is First Person, here in section seven.

07-Mar-2005
What Does a Very Large-Scale Conversation Look Like?

Warren Sack uses The Conversation Map, a "graphical interface" that analyzes newsgroups and listservs, to analyze the possibilities of discourse analysis itself.

06-Mar-2005
Community of People with No Time

"Collaboration shifts": Victoria Vesna investigates the digital/physical limn, the compression of spacetime, and the condition of tensegrity in projects such as n0time and Datamining Bodies.

05-Mar-2005
If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say?

The subtitle - "Using Voice Chips and Speech Recognition Chips to Explore Structures of Participation in Sociotechnical Scripts" - tells the story, partly. But there's more in store.

30-Jan-2005
A response to Lisa Yaszek and writing postfeminism

Cris Mazza on hijacking the terms of postfeminism.

30-Jan-2005
Querying the Connoisseur of Chaos

A Wallace Stevens conference review from poet and critic Ravi Shankar.

30-Jan-2005
Scientists on the Margins

David Nobes on the World Summit on the Information Society and the failure of some of its visionaries to see beyond tame and regimented applications of the Internet.

29-Jan-2005
I'll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy, or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?

From origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminsim.

28-Jan-2005
Language rules

geniwate writes along with sexless software agents and dismantles the gender politics of the programming man and his machine.

27-Jan-2005
From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities

Carolyn Guertin surveys the politics of Hacktivist women.

26-Jan-2005
Writing as a Woman: Annie Abrahams' e-writing

Is there such a thing as womens' writng? Or, for that matter, womens' media? Elisabeth Joyce moves through the work of Annie Abrahams and writes against restrictive domestications of electronic media.

25-Jan-2005
Permission to Read

"Rather than gathering in the South Ballroom for the plenary, we read into gardens, playrooms, cars, stores, home offices, and kitchen tables. These sites are not homey, though, in any Palmolive way." Bill Stobb reviews a collection of writers who consider the complexities of artmaking and motherhood.

24-Jan-2005
Tank Girl, Postfeminist Media Manifesto

Elyce Helford frames Tank Girl as a portrait of the postfeminist woman: hyper-individualist and hyper-sexual - a woman who is quite comfortable in popular cinema but not so much so in reality.

2004

06-Dec-2004
The Cheshire Cat's Grin

Diana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.

05-Dec-2004
All of Us

William Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.

05-Dec-2004
Celebrating Complexity

Stephen Schryer reviews Mark Taylor and casts a critical eye on the unconditional celebration of complexity.

05-Dec-2004
The Emperor's New Clothes

Diana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.

05-Dec-2004
Visiting Wonderland

Katherine Hayles responds to Diana Lobb.

30-Nov-2004
The Pixel/The Line

For all the talk of cyber-difference, screens still behave like pages. The contributors in section six have developed, in response, a digital aesthetics unlike that of print.

29-Nov-2004
Literal Art

John Cayley dadas up the digital, revealing similarities of type across two normally separate, unequal categories: image and text. "Neither lines nor pixels but letters," finally, unite.