essays

2006

20-Aug-2006
And Furthermore...

R M Berry Replies to Joseph Tabbi

20-Aug-2006
Riga Under Western Eyes

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

Global Politics and the Feminist Question

Ara Wilson writes a riposte on the gathering of "waves" essays; she points out that global feminist politics provides a necessary perspective on debates about the current state of feminism.

17-Mar-2006
Free as in Free Culture: A Response to Francis Raven

Benjamin J. Robertson responds to Francis Raven's review of Lessig's Free Culture. Writing against Raven, he outlines the ways in which Lessig's work is crucial for our current cultural moment.

Introduction: Waves

Lisa Joyce introduces this new gathering, titled "waves," of postfeminist essays.

Postfeminism vs. the Third Wave

Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism.

17-Mar-2006
The Importance of Being Narratological

Dave Ciccoricco responds to Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck.

Then isn't it all just 'hacktivism'?

Karim A. Remtulla asks to what degree postfeminism is identical with hactivism?

Towards a Loosening of Categories: Multi-Mimesis, Feminism, and Hypertext

Jess M.  Laccetti presents a theory of "multi-mimesis" as a way to redefine female subjectivity.

17-Mar-2006
Virtual Realism

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.

2005

18-Dec-2005
Empire and the Commons

Caren Irr reframes the question of private property through fantastic narratives of the commons.

18-Dec-2005
'Is it Possible Not to Love Žižek?' on Slavoj Žižek's Missed Encounter with Deleuze

Hanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.

18-Dec-2005
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Irreducible Innovation

William Smith Wilson injects the transcendentals of aesthetic illusions into Hardt and Negri's immanent materialism.

18-Dec-2005
Networking the Multitude

Linda C Brigham complicates Hardt and Negri's case for network resistance.

18-Dec-2005
Peter Hare's response to Lori Emerson

Peter Hare responds to Lori Emerson's review of Walter Benn Michaels.

18-Dec-2005
Putting the Brakes on the Žižek Machine

Eric Dean Rasmussen traces the contours of Hanjo Berressem's rigorous, bi-tempo reading of Organs without Bodies, which finds Žižek's philosophical buggering of Deleuze to be wanting.

18-Dec-2005
The Exemptions of Beauty

William Smith Wilson builds on his earlier ebr essay, "The End of Exemptions of Beauty," with this companion piece.

18-Dec-2005
The Machinic Multitude

Nick Spencer argues that the multitude is machinic, even without machines.

18-Dec-2005
Writing Futures: Hardt and Negri's Notation Politics

Aron Pease introduces this collection of essays by Linda Brigham, Caren Irr, William Wilson and Nick Spencer with a look at the multitude's programmability.

05-Nov-2005
Chris Stroffolino's response to Lori Emerson

Chris Stroffolino responds to Lori Emerson