essays

2004

08-Jan-2004
N. Katherine Hayles responds

The "cognitive entailments" of a reader, or "interactor," are where Katherine Hayles redirects the new aesthetics of electronic textuality.

08-Jan-2004
Simon Penny responds in turn

Simon Penny recalls that the origins of the human-computer interface, politicized by a military heritage, are now explored by artist-enigineers who chaperone fragmentation and dissent.

2003

29-Nov-2003
Richard Schechner's response (excerpt)

Richard Schechner remembers the real-life side of interaction.

15-Nov-2003
Two Gestures, While Waiting for a Third

Juggling economies and unknotting threads, Victor Vitanza pulls back to drop the curtain, theoretically, on The Politics of Information.

12-Nov-2003
Teaching the Cyborg (5 of 5)

The Politics of Information: fifth and final installment under the Technocapitalist thread.

11-Nov-2003
The Florida Research Ensemble and the Prospects for an Electronic Humanities

Chris Carter and Greg Ulmer dialogue through e-mails on the mission of the FRE.

09-Nov-2003
The Fan’s Desire and Technopower

Whether they fret over Ziggy Stardust or the condition of posthumanity, fans and scholars share, argues Harvey Molloy, a few habits of mind.

08-Nov-2003
Next Generation Student Resources: A Speculative Primer

A survey of humanities research websites (and how to teach with them) by Susan Schreibman.

06-Nov-2003
Resistance Through Hypertext: ACTing UP in the Electronic Classroom

Laura Sullivan and her students explore webwriting and content provision as activist tools.

05-Oct-2003
The Informatics of Higher Education (4 of 5)

In The Politics of Information, v.4, Bousquet, Wills, and Co bring their critique home to Higher Education.

04-Oct-2003
The Information University

Marc Bousquet discusses university labor delivered in "the mode of information."

03-Oct-2003
From Utopianism to Weak Messianism: Electronic Culture’s Spectral Moment

Stephanie Tripp addresses Spectres of Marx, the text featuring some of Derrida?s most detailed encounters with both historical materialism and information technology.

03-Oct-2003
Michael Milken and the Corporate Raid on Education

Junk bond swami Michael Milken jumped out of prison a few years ago and into for-profit education. Ken Saltman submits Milken's latest venture to the light of day.

16-Sep-2003
In My Own Recognizance

Ronald Sukenick on Extreme Fiction.

14-Sep-2003
Textual Events (3 of 5)

How to commodify "intellectual property" when the object, a text, is made of other texts, and each reading is a re-writing? The Politics of Information, Part 3, considers the identity of event and machine.

13-Sep-2003
Before and After the Web: George P. Landow (interviewed by Harvey L. Molloy)

George Landow talks with Harvey Molloy about personal projects and future Web speculations.

13-Sep-2003
What’s Left: Materialist Responses to the Internet

Urging adaptibility and breadth, Mark Poster takes issue with the niches bored by early Internet critiques.

12-Sep-2003
Intellectual Property Law, Freedom of Expression, and the Web

Kembrew McLeod, fresh from having trademarked the phrase freedom of expression®, speeds through the domain name scandals of the information superhighway.