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2018

01-Jul-2018
Why a Humanist Ethics of Datafication Can't Survive a Posthuman World

A post-humanist critique of Rockwell and Berendt's all too Humanist essay, in the vein of Donna Haraway’s “Keeping with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene” (2016) and Patricia MacCormack’s “Posthuman Ethics” (2012).

05-Jan-2018
Review of Angela Nagle's Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

Gregor Baszak parses Nagle's celebrated, and "overdue" reconsideration of the internet, and social media in particular as a battlefield for politics.

2006

20-Aug-2006
Riga Under Western Eyes

If you're under the impression that Americans are wealthy, check out the capital city of Latvia.

2005

30-Jan-2005
Scientists on the Margins

David Nobes on the World Summit on the Information Society and the failure of some of its visionaries to see beyond tame and regimented applications of the Internet.

2004

19-Oct-2004
Tending the Garden Plot: Victory Garden and Operation Enduring...

Dave Ciccoricco returns to Stuart Moulthrop, considers Operation Enduring Freedom (2003) in light of Operation Desert Storm (1991), and consults the annals of World War II for a likely source of "Victory Garden," the title of Moulthrop's 1991 network fiction on the Gulf War.

07-Jan-2004
Entre Chien et Loup: On Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love

Tim Keane reviews Genet's republished Prisoner of Love, a 'mirror-memoir' in which Genet sees Palestine from the inside in an attempt to see himself from the outside.

2003

26-Jan-2003
Attacked from Within

In the triad of Verso pamphlets on 9/11, Nick Spencer sees a convergence of postmodern critique (against the capitalist culture of postmodernity).

2001

01-Sep-2001
America: The Usable Cliché

Sue Im-Lee reviews Reciting America by Christopher Douglas.

01-Sep-2001
Reading the L.A. Landscape

Claire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.

01-Sep-2001
Talking Back to the Owners of the World

Steffen Hantke on Tom LeClair's and Richard Powers's novelistic imaginations of terror.

01-Jan-2001
Feeding the Global Spider

Linda Brigham sees Zygmunt Bauman's Globalization: The Human Consequences as a provocative introduction to our current environmental and economic predicament.

1999

01-Feb-1999
Epic Ecologies (III)

Perloff comes back with an alternative line of 'evolution' from the modern epic - one leading to language poetry, rather than the magical realist novel.

15-Jan-1999
Epic Ecologies (II)

Franco Moretti responds to the review of his Modern Epic by Marjorie Perloff.

01-Jan-1999
Alice's Adventures in Sanctionland

Vladislava Gordic writes from Novi Sad to a friend in London (1998).

01-Jan-1999
At the Moment I Became a Global Dictator

A media parable by Novica Milic.

01-Jan-1999
Becoming Postmodern: A Romanian Literature Survey

Florin Popescu introduces Western readers to a national literature whose modern humor and archaic spirituality affront postmodern sensibilities

01-Jan-1999
Cover to Cover: Paratextual play in Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars

Ivan Callus skims the surface of Pavic's print hypertext.

01-Jan-1999
Internet Nation

The Internet Nation thread, which the editors hope to develop substantially in the coming years, was introduced in the winter of 98/99, following a trip to Novi Sad by ebr editor Joseph Tabbi a few months before that city would be bombed by NATO troups.

01-Jan-1999
Miloš Crnjanski and his descendents

Poet Nina Zivancevic translates and comments on poetry by the founder of Modernism in Yugoslav literature

01-Jan-1999
One or Many Gombrowicz’s?

On twentieth-century Poland's leading author.