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Can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? A Marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel.

Lorne Falk retells the allegory of Arachne, the divine weaver, netted in le cabinet virtuel

Lori Emerson reviews The Shape of the Signifier by Walter Benn Michaels.

For Daniel Punday, Bernard Siegert's historical materialism - a difficult synthesis of historical, literary, and institutional analysis - falls somewhere between Derrida and Foucault. But see also the review in ebr by historian Richard John, who considers Siegert in the line of Walter Ong, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Harold Innis.

Noting that media are not only proposed to readers but also imposed on customers, Jan Baetens introduces Adorno into the debates on remediation.

Bruce Clarke reviews the new translation of Grammophone, Film, Typewriter, a requiem and good-riddance for the era of so-called Man.

Timothy Luke reviews Nicholas Negroponte and takes a second look at 'digital subjectivity.'

Shirin Shenassa situates Roman de la Campa's Latin Americanism within the critical discourses of the world's metropolitan centers and introduces a new thREAD into ebr's Internet Nation series

Diana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.