essays

2001

01-Oct-2001
What Lies Beneath?

Gene Kannenberg, Jr. finds the most well-publicized comic by one of America's most significant cartoonists to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but finally all too true to its title: the characters and situations in David Boring are in fact boring.

15-Sep-2001
Re-Clearing the Ground: A Response to Linda Brigham

Mark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham's review of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing.

15-Sep-2001
Responding to Kermani's "Wak Auf."

In her Sonic Spectrum survey, Elise Kermani invited readers to locate sounds on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. Here, Skip LaPlante responds with an autobiography in music, sound, and noise.

01-Sep-2001
A Disorganized Multilingual A to Z Poem

noise poem: Raymond Federman. audio recording and production: Eric Dean Rasmussen and Shaun Sandor

01-Sep-2001
A Poetics of the Link

Jeff Parker contributes to the ongoing debate on electropoetics and invites readers to post their own link types and descriptions.

01-Sep-2001
A Somewhat Legal Look at the Dawn and Dusk of the Napster Controversy

Paul C. Rapp, Esq., a.k.a. Lee Harvey Blotto, on the legal, cultural, and economic dimensions of the Napster controversy circa Y2K.

01-Sep-2001
Duchamp Through Shop Windows

Reviewing new scholarship by David Joselit, Molly Nesbit, Thierry de Duve, and Linda Henderson, Hannah Higgins proposes that writing about Duchamp needs to be Duchampian in flavor.

01-Sep-2001
Further Notes From the Prison-House of Language

Linda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.

01-Sep-2001
Hollywood Nomadology?

Linda Brigham offers a Deleuzean take on Independence Day.

01-Sep-2001
Litmixer: The Literary Remediator

With his software groovebox, Trace Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation.

01-Sep-2001
Music/Sound/Noise

The msn thread originated in the Fall of 2001 as an ebr special co-edited by Cary Wolfe, Mark Amerika, and Joseph Tabbi.

01-Sep-2001
Network Voices

Fifteen artists working along the blurry boundary of music, sound, and noise launch Alt-X Audio. curator: Mark Amerika.

01-Sep-2001
New Beatle/Beach Boy Facts

Reflection on the two titans of entertainment and enlightenment.

01-Sep-2001
Primary Sounds

Reflections on Red/Yellow/Blue in the context of Music/Sound/Noise.

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-Sep-2001
Tattoo it in Skin: A Literary Prediction

RVV Rob Wittig, Scriptor, fast forwards to a future when teenagers in neo-nikes and neo-soccer jerseys recreate ye olden days of the True Hip Hop Troubadour, circa Y2K.

01-Sep-2001
The Sonic Spectrum

Elise Kermani writes about her work with sound and invites readers to locate sounds of their own on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. database programming: Allison Hunter and Ewan Branda.

01-Sep-2001
To Clean the Ears

Kermani responds to LaPlante.

Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

Jaishree K. Odin on the hyperfiction of M.D. Coverley.

01-Sep-2001
When You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Voice, Vision, and the Prosthetic Subject in Dancer in the Dark

Cary Wolfe investigates why the reviewers were so rattled by the Lars von Trier film, and in the process puts Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler into conversation.