A discussion of net.activism, net.tactics, and strategy featuring Bruce Simon, Geert Lovink, Chris Carter, and Ricardo Dominguez.

The story of an activist website's shutdown, as told by DeeDee Halleck, with interstitial e-mails.

On the occasion of a new novel by Joseph McElroy and the Overlook Press reissue of McElroy's earlier work, Andrew Walser initiates a revaluation.

Further on McElroy and a novel that reflects the mind's helter-skelter workings while (for the protagonist) creating many occasions for avoidance.

In looking to the future of the 'electronic book,' Ciccoricco digs up some of ebr's manifesto-like remarks of old.

Stuart Moulthrop re-opens the debate on the "electronic book" and its continued marginalization vis-a vis print.

Shells, Tents, Slaps, Shocks: Steffen Hantke works slowly, from within, to get at McElroy's nonlinear narrative.

Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.

In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.

Despite talk of endings and absences at Eastgate Systems, Dave Ciccoricco investigates continuities in the work of Michael Joyce and Mark Bernstein.

Darren Tofts reviews a popularization by Marie O'Mahony and an auto-critique of cyberculture by Andrew Murphie and John Potts.

Sven Philipp on Cosmopolis and what seems to be a new stage in the critical reception of DeLillo.

Stuart Moulthrop complicates the idea of self-contained games.

Ralph Berry on Avant-Garde fiction and the future of the page.

Lance Olsen continues the FC/2 authors' discussion of Carole Maso's AVA and adds some bits on Laird Hunt, Mark Z Danielewski, Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, and other recent U.S. avant-gardists.

Further on Gertrude Stein, Carole Maso, and the avant garde in U.S. fiction from Lidia Yuknavitch.

Picking up Lance Olsen's theme of thinking as digestion, Michael Martone chews on what's Avant Garde about Baltimore.

Rone Shavers argues that making readers aware of subjugation - the strategy of Harold Jaffe's False Positive - exposes little and hardly changes our relation to power.

A review of Writing Machines, building on a number of the book's earlier reviewers in ebr and elsewhere.

Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.