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Nick Montfort reviews Espen J. Aarseth's Cybertext, which stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts that Aarseth discusses are included.

Nothing Less and Nothing More: The Oulipo Compendium

Alain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity.
Translation by James Stevens

The Materiality of Technotexts

A book about books conscious of their materiality, N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines draws praise from Raine Koskimaa for its own media consciousness, and blame for embodied emphasis.

Richard Schechner’s response (excerpt)

Richard Schechner remembers the real-life side of interaction.

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Linda Brigham has also written a review of Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman.

Linda Brigham has also written a review of Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman.

‐ Lori Emerson

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geniwate, Kembrew McLeod and Benjamin Robertson all address issues of copyright, writing of the potential for copyleft to disrupt capital flows.

geniwate, Kembrew McLeod and Benjamin Robertson all address issues of copyright, writing of the potential for copyleft to disrupt capital flows.

‐ Lori Emerson

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Andrew McMurry also questions the complexification of literary studies in his general introduction to the Critical Ecologies thread, circa 2006.

Andrew McMurry also questions the complexification of literary studies in his general introduction to the Critical Ecologies thread, circa 2006.

‐ Lori Emerson

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