1997
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.
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.
Alan Shaw on the poetics of composer Harry Partch and the musicality of greek prosody.
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.
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.'