cognition
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.
N. Katherine Hayles responds
The "cognitive entailments" of a reader, or "interactor," are where Katherine Hayles redirects the new aesthetics of electronic textuality.
Simon Penny responds in turn
Simon Penny recalls that the origins of the human-computer interface, politicized by a military heritage, are now explored by artist-enigineers who chaperone fragmentation and dissent.
Representation, Enaction, and the Ethics of Simulation
Do violent games train us for violence? Drawing on social psychology and cognitive science, Simon Penny examines the "ethics of simulation."
a Joseph McElroy festschrift
Andrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.