1997
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.
Steven Kellert on being "in favor of universals."
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.
Taking up the green thread from ebr4, Harold Fromm reviews three new books of eco-criticism >--- ebr4 critical ecologies.
1996
Timothy Luke reviews Nicholas Negroponte and takes a second look at 'digital subjectivity.'
Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.
Andrew McMurry reviews John Livingstone's Rogue Primate: An exploration of human domestication.
An art installation as much as an "issue," the original site for ebr4, Critical Ecologies, used variations on a concrete poem by Daniel Wenk to guide readers through the "green" and "gray" essays. Another innovation was the introduction of the riposte section.
Thomas Cohen on ecotourism in Bolivia and discovering the post-humans of the past.
Martha Henn reviews Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women by Anne Balsamo
Paisley Livingston on Stanislaw Lem and the history and philosphy of Virtual Reality.
Todd E. Napolitano on Going Gonzo: Following the Trail of the WWWench