essays

1996

30-Dec-1996
Ecotourism: Notes on Con-temporary Travel

Thomas Cohen on ecotourism in Bolivia and discovering the post-humans of the past.

30-Dec-1996
From Virtual Reality to Phantomatics and Back

Paisley Livingston on Stanislaw Lem and the history and philosphy of Virtual Reality.

30-Dec-1996
Going Gonzo: Following the Trail of the WWWench

Todd E. Napolitano on Going Gonzo: Following the Trail of the WWWench

30-Dec-1996
HYPER-LEX: A Technographical Dictionary

Paul Harris hybridizes the terms of hypertextual discourse and takes it to a higher power.

30-Dec-1996
Reading Writing Space

Anne Burdick reads Jay David Bolter's Writing Space.

30-Dec-1996
Wiring John Cage: Silence as a Global Sound System

Sandy Baldwin on music in the new media ecology.

Can't We Just Call It Sex?

Dodie Bellamy gets to the "dirty parts" of contemporary fiction.

01-Sep-1996
Cyborg Anthropology

Matthew Fuller on The Cyborg Handbook.

Feminism, Nature, and Discursive Ecologies

Having women in power won't automatically make for caring, sensitive environmental policies as Stacy Alaimo implies in her review of Carolyn Merchant and Val Plumwood.

Memory and Oblivion: The Historical Fiction of Rikki Ducornet, Jeanette Winterson, and Susan Daitch

Lisa Joyce critiques the rash of historical fiction by women, circa 1996.

No Victims, the anti-theme

Cris Mazza sends in her introduction to the follow-up volume of Chick-Lit, No Victims.

Of Graphomania, Confession, and the Writing Self

Todd E. Napolitano on the kitsch of on-line journals, most of which have flashed and disappeared since they were panned here, in the Fall 1996 ebr.

Postfeminist Fiction

Elisabeth Sheffield on the implications of the anthology that helped to put the term "postfeminsim" into circulation.

01-Sep-1996
01-Sep-1996
Stanley Fish and the Place of Criticism

Christopher Knight on Stanley Fish's Professional Correctness.

the glory of the liberal white teacher woman

Lidia Yukman describes the experience of teaching people of differing backgrounds.

"Thorowly" American: Susan Howe's Guide to Orienteering in the Adirondacks

Elisabeth Joyce reads Howe as a postfeminist Thoreau facing the dilemma that 'to inhabit a wilderness is to destroy it.'

What is chick-lit?

Diane Goodman on the anthology that helped put the term "postfeminism" into circulation.

Writing Postfeminism

The postfeminist issue of ebr was the first to use visual art as a means of navigation as well as illustration.