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1. For Thee: A Response to Alice Bell

   In an essay that responds to Alice Bell's book The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Stuart Moulthrop uses the lessons of hypertext as both an analogy and an explanation for why hypertext and its criticism will stay in a "niche" - and why, despite Bell's concern, that's not such a bad thing. As the response of an author to his critic, addressed to "thee," "implicitly dragging her into the niche with me," this review also dramatizes the very productivity of such specialized, nodal encounters.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.02.2011 - 11:01

2. Intermediation: The Pursuit of a Vision

   Twenty-first century literature is computational, from electronic works to print books created as digital files and printed by digital presses. To create an appropriate theoretical framework, the concept of intermediation is proposed, in which recursive feedback loops join human and digital cognizers to create emergent complexity. To illustrate, Michael Joyce's afternoon is compared and contrasted with his later Web work, Twelve Blue. Whereas afternoon has an aesthetic and interface that recall print practices, Twelve Blue takes its inspiration from the fluid exchanges of the Web. Twelve Blue instantiates intermediation by creating coherence not through linear sequences but by recursively cycling between associated images. Intermediation is further explored through Maria Mencia's digital art work and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter and its successor piece, The Error Engine, by Morrissey, Lori Talley, and Lutz Hamel.

   (Source: Project MUSE abstract)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 10:27

3. A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce

   A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 11:29

4. Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue

   Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 12:40

5. Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

   Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:44

6. False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

   A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57

7. "I Am a Double Agent": Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Persistence of Print in the Age of Hypertext

   "I Am a Double Agent": Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Persistence of Print in the Age of Hypertext

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.06.2011 - 16:17

8. Reproductive Technologies, Fetal Icons, and Genetic Freaks: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and the Limits and Possibilities of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg

   This article uses Donna Haraway’s work in “A Cyborg Manifesto” to examine how new reproductive technologies and politics meet and converge with fictional representations of the posthuman subject in Shelley Jackson’s hypertext, Patchwork Girl. It argues that Jackson’s text offers a cyborgian reading of reproduction that challenges the dominant discourse surrounding new reproductive technologies. Ultimately, it argues that Jackson’s text represents assisted conceptions, cyborgian births, and monstrous progenesis in ways that explore the possibilities and limitations of the cyborg, and it addresses current preoccupations with the potential benefits and horrors of new reproductive technologies. (Source: Author's abstract)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.06.2011 - 08:22

9. Tending the Garden Plot: Victory Garden and Operation Enduring....

   A reading of Moulthrop's Victory Garden seen primarily as a war narrative, in the light of the contemporary (to the article) war on Iraq.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 21:26

10. A Pragmatics of Links

    This paper applies the linguistic theory of relevance to the study of the way links work, insisting on the lyrical quality of the link-interpreting activity. It is argued that such a pragmatic approach can help us understand hypertext readers´ behavior, and thus be useful for authors and tool-builders alike. (Source: Author's abstract)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 21:39

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