Lexia to Perplexia
Notes Toward a Proleptic History of Electronic Reading
Matthew Kirschenbaum rethinks the final section of First Person in light of "five basic strategies for furthering the history of reading."
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.
N. Katherine Hayles responds
The "cognitive entailments" of a reader, or "interactor," are where Katherine Hayles redirects the new aesthetics of electronic textuality.