Rowan Wilken sets himself the challenge of theorizing the unrepresentable in relation to the architectural model of the diagram.

Marcel O'Gorman offers a candid account of what it means to introduce the computer apparatus into teaching in the humanities.

Michael Jarrett practices an Ulmer-inspired heuretics to write about rap.

Niall Lucy enacts a writing that weaves critical and theoretical speculation, rock journalism, hagiography and autobiography.

Linda Marie Walker writes an involved meditation on the concept of the interface and its relation to place.

Jon McKenzie, a former student of Gregory Ulmer's, traces the relations of influence and mentorship.

Craig Saper ingeniously interprets Gregory Ulmer as an object of study, as both a vehicle and driver of signification.

Jerome McGann addresses the so-called "Crisis in the Humanities" in the context of two of its most apparent symptoms: the digital transformation of our museums and archives, and the explicitly parallel "Crisis in Tenure and Publishing" that has more recently come to attention.

Entering the 'cyberdebates' initiated by Nick Montfort, John Cayley, and Rita Raley, new media scholar Mark Marino proposes that we should analyze and explicate code as a text like any other, 'a sign system with its own rhetoric' and cultural embeddedness.

Linda Brigham reviews Katherine Hayles' My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Jacob Edmond reviews Brian McHale's The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole.

Eckhard Gerdes reviews Harold Jaffe's Terror-Dot-Gov: Docufictions.

Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck review Marie Laure-Ryan's Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. They review the essential characteristics of hypertext to suggest more nuanced ways to understand realism in relation to virtual reality.

1999 e-literature award winner John Cayley writes about Saul Bass of classic film title fame. A precursor to language arts innovators Jenny Holzer, Richard Kostelanetz, and Cayley himself, Bass may now be recognized as a poet in his own 'write,' important for a new generation of designwriters creating "graphic bodies of language," moving words and signifying images, in digital environments.

A Wallace Stevens conference review from poet and critic Ravi Shankar.

Gregg Biglieri reads "into" Actress in the House and revels in Joseph McElroy's syntax.

A Response to Rone Shavers and impromptu review of Harold Jaffe's latest book, 15 Serial Killers, latest entry in the "literature of witness."

Joseph Tabbi reviews Joe Conte's Design and Debris and gauges the argument for chaotics-as-aesthetics across media.

Ronald Sukenick on Extreme Fiction.

In looking to the future of the 'electronic book,' Ciccoricco digs up some of ebr's manifesto-like remarks of old.