2003
In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.
Sven Philipp on Cosmopolis and what seems to be a new stage in the critical reception of DeLillo.
Ralph Berry on Avant-Garde fiction and the future of the page.
Lance Olsen continues the FC/2 authors' discussion of Carole Maso's AVA and adds some bits on Laird Hunt, Mark Z Danielewski, Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, and other recent U.S. avant-gardists.
Further on Gertrude Stein, Carole Maso, and the avant garde in U.S. fiction from Lidia Yuknavitch.
Picking up Lance Olsen's theme of thinking as digestion, Michael Martone chews on what's Avant Garde about Baltimore.
A review of Writing Machines, building on a number of the book's earlier reviewers in ebr and elsewhere.
Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.
Jim Rosenberg sends a shot of grammar straight across the bow of Nick Montfort's controversial Cybertext review, adding volume to a volley already in progress.
Over 800 pages, the New Media Reader does not exhaust its subject; it even sets the stage for a companion volume.
Form and platform are bridged in Stephanie Strickland's "V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una," a book with two beginings and a website to boot. Chris Funkhouser tests the load limit of this innovative, precarious structure.
Rob Wittig looks at one of the earliest "Weblogs," and finds there a persisting model for serial e-fiction and an interaction no less compelling than the literary correspondence between Henry Miller and Anais Nin.
Scott Rettberg appreciates Weinberg's small pieces more than his 'unified theory,' while viewing the Internet not as an economic panacea but a communication medium woven into the fabric of contemporary culture.
A personal account by novelist Joseph McElroy of the WTC crash (that is: a structure of some outside and inside project encompassing one individual).
Against the conflation of Islamic and economic fundamentalisms (William S. Wilson responds to Nick Spenser).
In the triad of Verso pamphlets on 9/11, Nick Spencer sees a convergence of postmodern critique (against the capitalist culture of postmodernity).
The WTC attack considered as a conflict between open and closed systems, a one-system people and a many-system people.
To understand differences between Islamic and Western aesthetics, Nick Spencer argues, is not the way to understand the WTC attacks.
New media in a book, metafiction in hypertext: the printed book, as yet, is the more hospitable medium. (The New Media Reader; Figurski at Findhorn on Acid.)