"Connect the n space to the 0 and understand that the lack of time due to information overflow is an illusion," writes Victoria Vesna.

Phoebe Sengers praises the optimistic, self-aware conversation mapped by Warren Sack and First Person.

Rebecca Ross asks how observing a conversation might change it.

An autobiographical reflection by Warren Sack, prompted by two particular questions.

Text and full-size sidebar images from "What Does a Very Large-Scale Conversation Look Like?"

Sidebar images from "Approaches to Interactive Text and Recombinant Poetics - Media-Element Field Explorations."

Body politics and mouse use scroll through the scene.

Derrida's territory - "discontinuities, contradictions, ambiguities, materiality, silence, space, conflict, margins, and figures" - is Bill Seaman's, as Diane Gromala notes.

Jill Walker questions who (or what) sets the rules for interaction.

Praise for the body art of Camille Utterback, and commentary on controls.

Camille Utterback's physical poetics, re-symbolized.

Matt Gorbet maintains that interactive texts remain overfamiliar to bodies trained on snowflakes and rain.

Johanna Drucker counters hands-off poetics with practice.

John Cayley replays what is literal and literary in the digital.

Computers abstract from true/false to host letters, pixels, and Nick Montfort's riposte.

Sidebar images from "Literal Art: Neither Lines nor Pixels but Letters."

Anthony Enns juxtaposes two models of German media theory in reviewing new works by Oliver Grau and Friedrich Kittler.

Jenny Weight reviews William Mitchell's third book, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City.

Jan Baetens looks 'through' and 'at' Bolter and Gromala's Windows and Mirrors and finds a foggy vision.

Joseph Tabbi reviews Joe Conte's Design and Debris and gauges the argument for chaotics-as-aesthetics across media.