Style articles from June 1999

Style archives from June 1999

Introduction: Interactive Style.
June 22, 1999... ... a blueprint or a cautionary tale? And one inevitably enters this conversation, about the pitfalls and potential of new media, already in progress as if subscribing to an on-going electronic list-server. The experience is similar to those...

Misadventure: Future Fiction and the New Networks.
June 22, 1999... I. Scary New Networks On her way to the Pulitzer Prize for book reviewing, the New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani took a memorable swipe at hypertext fiction, decreeing that the best things in this line amount to "Myst and Warcraft...

Re-reading the Desert in Hypertranslation.
June 22, 1999... Terre, poussiere, un paysage sans fenetre, sans abri. Terre observee du silence, beaute anterieure, le desert est indescriptible. (149)/Earth, dust, a landscape without windows, without shelter. Observed land of silence, preexistent beauty, the...

Loose Ends/Connections: Interactivity in Networked Space.
June 22, 1999... Questions How many of us understand the complex set of interactions that make up a world scale network like the Internet? The hardware, the translation of digital data across physical distance, pulsations of light fed through fiber optic...

Doors to the Labyrinth: Designing Interactive Frictions with Nina Menkes, Pat O'Neill, and John Rechy.
June 22, 1999... Interactive narrative did not begin in cyberspace. It has deep, tangled roots in an array of earlier forms--such as, theater, poetry, novel, dance, opera, radio, cinema, television, and performance art. But the new electronic media provoke us...

Getting into the Story [1].
June 22, 1999... Interactive Story During the past few years, the rapid growth of electronic media and other technologies has engendered a quest for a new narrative form, interactive story. The key idea is to transform the passive story observer into an...

Techno-Cultural Interaction and the Fear of Information.
June 22, 1999... Information Overload Today, we are often told, we live not simply in an age of information, but in an age of excessive information. The amount and availability of information seem to be increasing at an exponential rate. We feel that our...

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June 22, 1999... Hacker Trading On the morning of April 7, 1999, the stock price of PairGain Technologies Inc. suddenly rose more than 30% amid rumors that the company was being acquired by an Israeli rival, ECI Telecom Ltd. The rumor of a buy-out of...

FuturePerfect: Tense.
June 22, 1999... Noise destroys and horrifies. But order and flat repetition are in the vicinity of death. Noise nourishes a new order. Organization, life, and intelligent thought live between order and noise, between disorder and perfect harmony. If there were...

South to the Future's World Wide Wire Service.
June 22, 1999... South to the Future writes and distributes news online. Like the Associated Press (AP), South to the Future makes its stories available to newspapers and Web sites. Like those of the AP or other news outlets, stories from South to the Future...

Dead Technology.
June 22, 1999... For thousands of years, technology has been breaking. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. (Psalms 31:12) Duke of Venice: Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands. ...

The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Gerard Genette. The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence. Translated by G. M. Goshgarian. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. vii + 272 pp. $42.50 cloth; $16.95 paper. Trans. of L'oeuvre de l'art [1]: Immanence et transcendence. Paris:...