1997
Joel Felix listens in on Postmodern Culture's privatization debate.
Marta Werner uncages Emily Dickinson's fragments.
John Cayley reviews the Hypertext '97 Conference, which brought together representatives from corporate and academic sectors.
Stephanie Strickland on the translation of poetry from print to screen.
A conversation with Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg on the technology and politics of the millenial anthology.
From Zukofsky's "A" to Powers' Goldbug Variations, in search of a social ecology of the self-discursive text.
Millennial thoughts from Raymond Federman.
John Matthias reports on the state of British Poetry and its criticism.
Alan Shaw on the poetics of composer Harry Partch and the musicality of greek prosody.
The second ebr special to employ the concrete poems of Daniel Wenk, working typographical variations on the term, "electropoetics." Guest edited by Joel Felix, who in 1997 was an undergraduate Lit major at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Artist Eduardo Kac writes on the attractions of the hologram as a malleable, fluid, and elastic medium for poetic expression.
Bringing the queston of 'textuality' into the cyberdebates, and refusing the conservative oppostion between contemplative reading and gaming, Daniel Punday argues that critics should embrace spinoff culture as a model for electronic writing.
Lorne Falk retells the allegory of Arachne, the divine weaver, netted in le cabinet virtuel
Oulipo poetics and the art of translation.
on the ghost in the machine: the font as spiritual medium in CD-ROM poetry design
On the present and future of hypertext poetics (circa 1997).
A cyber (hyper) text reading through Copeland, Gibson, and Christopher Dewdney, with breaks for speculation on form and opacity. Is there a manifesto buried in here? You decide.
Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry's The New Ecological Order.