“In a journal where data/space is treated as a textured field, hypertext reading becomes a gathering together of diverse thREADs into a self-organizing system of visual, verbal, and sonic elements.” >--- introduction   ebr9 a gathering of threads the first fold: electropoetics --------------------------------------- To Be Both in Touch and in Control Stephanie Strickland unravels the crochet of categorizations used to contain data, and explores the texture and topography of a hypertext poetics --------------------------------------- A Migration Between Media Joseph Tabbi reads both the book and the hypertext version of Strickland's True North --------------------------------------- The Affective Interface Lorne Falk retells the allegory of Arachne, the divine weaver, netted in le cabinet virtuel --------------------------------------- Ventriloquies: On the Outlook for a Poetic Planet Uranus circles around two sentences in Marjorie Perloff, and explains why criticism can't account for the unaccountable in poetry --------------------------------------- La Vielle Porte and Other Poems Ray Federman compiles a small manual of poetic pleasures --------------------------------------- the second fold: image + narrative --------------------------------------- Fucked by the Master's Plot H. Kassia Fleisher finds more than coincidence between plot-writing software, reader expectation, the knee-jerk of traditional story, literary production, Joan Collins's trial over her first novel, pleasure and gratification, hypertexual vertigo, and Disney's corporate city, Celebration(r) design interpretation: Sophie Dobrigkeit tech needs: dynamic html, Netscape 4+ or Explorer 4+ --------------------------------------- Great Excavations Theodore Pelton views Robert Creeley's image/text collaborations in Buffalo, NY. --------------------------------------- Body Language in the Paper Theater Stephen Farrell considers spun grammars: the interweave of narrative and its graphic representation. web realization: Corinne Read --------------------------------------- Pre/post-erous: La Jetée ciné-roman Jon Wagner, Tracy Biga Maclean, and Chris Peters look at how an avant-garde classic writes its opposite in La Jetée, ciné-roman by Chris Marker and Bruce Mau. design collaborator: Sophie Dobrigkeit --------------------------------------- Object Lessons: From Work to Text to Book Andrew Blauvelt juxtaposes the corporate history Thinkbook and Rem Koolhaas's S, M, L, XL. design collaborator: Dave Steinert web realization: Corinne Read --------------------------------------- | | | ^   >--thREADs     reVIEWs--<