1996
Should the Left pool its resources and buy CBS? Robert Markley offers strategies for avoiding Patrick Buchanan's jihad.
Cary Wolfe lays bare the assumptions that define Bérubé's stance.
Mark Amerika goes public, and reveals speculative fiction and market speculations to be one and the same.
Marjorie Perloff on the surprising viability of art and poetry - everywhere but in universities.
Former FC2 Co-publisher Curtis White defends radical fiction against Left radical intellectuals.
Can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? A Marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel.
Joe Amato muses on academic stardom, the poetics list, and the corporation that motors his university.
Linda Brigham reviews Incorporations, the most recent collection from Zone Books.
Joseph Tabbi and Gregory Ulmer discuss what intellectual work will be like in the new electracy.
In this feature essay from the spring of 1996, Michael Bérubé claimed that left intellectuals have little choice but to sell out, if they want to make a difference in the culture they critique. But which way is out? And who gets to go public?
David Cassuto reviews Wild Ideas, a collection of ecocritical essays.
Daniel Riess on Roger Chartier's media history.
David Cassuto reviews Wild Ideas, a collection of ecocritical essays.
Matt Kirschenbaum on Richard Coyne's philosophical treatment of technographics.
1995
From the start, the editors made it clear that the electronic book review would be about more than reviewing books.
Walter Vannini investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's marketplace.
N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers theorize in a void.
Michael Joyce looks at hypertext, body art, body piercing, and Web culture.