2001
A reluctant response to Markku Eskelinen's "Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying," where Hayles discusses her admiration for Espen Aarseth's work... and the limitations within it she has perceived.
Considering hypertext as a subset of cybertexts, Markku Eskelinen offers seven examples of how to implement Espen Aarseth's seven-fold typology.
In response to Nick Montfort's review of Cybertext, N. Katherine Hayles coins an alternative term, cyber|literature.
Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink performs an autopsy on the hypertextual corpse.
2000
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.
1999
Stephanie Strickland unravels the crochet of categorizations used to contain data, and explores the texture and topography of a hypertext poetics.
Joseph Tabbi reads both the book and the hypertext version of Strickland's True North.
Raymond Federman compiles a small manual of poetic pleasures.
Against the literary history proposed by Marjorie Perloff, Shaw goes on the lookout for an Outlook that just might save poetry from contemporary theory.
John Matthias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 1992, in light of earlier work by Auden and recent findings.
1998
Thomas Swiss unravels Laura Miller's arguments in the New York Times Book Review and finds news of hypertext's demise premature - as was Robert Coover's call for the end of books five years ago in the same journal.
Stephanie Strickland asks how a poetics of hypertext can structure encounters with the world that are as resonant and co-participatory as quantum models.
On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.
On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.
1997
Joel Felix listens in on Postmodern Culture's privatization debate.
Stephanie Strickland on the translation of poetry from print to screen.
A conversation with Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg on the technology and politics of the millenial anthology.
From Zukofsky's "A" to Powers' Goldbug Variations, in search of a social ecology of the self-discursive text.
Millennial thoughts from Raymond Federman.