Index
List of Illustrations ix
Series Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
I Spontaneous Theories 1
Cyberpsychogeography
(An Aimless Drift in Twenty Digressions) 3
Portrait of the VJ 55
II Distributed Fictions 87
GRAMMATRON 89
This Could Be the First Day of the Rest of My Life 95
How to Be an Internet Artist 101
OK Texts 103
Memorandum from the Director of the Office
of Political and Economic Insecurity 105
10 Comms 109
Globalization Is . . . 111
Top Ten Reasons Why Net.Art Is Dead 113
The . . . Writer . . . as . . .
Pseudo-Autobiographical Work-in-Progress 115
The Insider’s Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism
Excelling at the Fine Art of Making Money 125
Natto Girls 135
The Random Life of VJ Persona
(A Mobile Medium in the Form of a Fiction) 145
III Academic Remixes 161
Answers to Questions I Have Been Asked
A Technomadic Journey 163
Expanding the Concept of Writing
Notes on Net Art, Digital Narrative, and Viral Ethics 181
Teaching High Techne 191
Anticipating the Present :An Artist's Intuition 201
IV Image Écriture 209
V Net Dialogues 221
WYSIWYG Subjects (with Eugene Thacker) 223
Postcinematic Writing (with Adrian Miles) 227
Stitch Bitch: The Hypertext Author as
Cyborg-Narrator (with Shelley Jackson) 231
Dub Fictions (with Jeff Noon) 237
Active/onBlur (with Talan Memmott) 241
Hawaiian Net Art (with Dee Kine) 251
The Organizational Game (with Amanda McDonald Crowley) 255
The Animating Fluid of Cyberspace (with Melinda Rackham)261
Digital Hallucinogens (with John Vega) 265
The Loss of Inscription (with Giselle Beiguelman) 269
On Being Retro in the Zeroes (with Abe Golam) 273
VI Amerika Online 277
This Is All I Do Now 279
Avant-Pop Manifesto: Thread Baring Itself
in Ten Quick Posts 289
Hypertextual Consciousness: Notes toward a
Critical Net Practice 295
The Work of Art in the Age of Virtual Republishing
and Network Installation 317
Network Installations, Creative Exhibitionism,
and Virtual Republishing
An Attempt at Conceptualizing the Ongoing Ungoing Story
of Being in Cyberspace 319
Cyberspace Installations
Do-It-Yourself Narrative Composition for the '90s 325
Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Playgiarism on the Net 331
Copyleftists: Form and Action in
the Network Environment 337
Life Is Elsewhere
Cruising the Antipodal Trajectory 343
Prophesizing Infowar: Creating Expectations
in the New Media Economy 349
The Private Life of a Network Publisher 357
A Chair Is a Chair Is a Chair: Comments at Convergence 361
The Rhetorical Gesture 363
Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part One) 367
Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part Two) 373
Blurring Practices: The Work of Art as Public Offering 381
Sonic Upheaval: Using mp3 to Rip the System 389
Para-Sites and Host Connections: An Unconditional Love 395
Writing as Hacktivism: An Intervening Satire 401
Designwriting: A Postliterary Reading Experience 407
What in the World Wide Web Is Happening to Writing? 413
What Is a Blog? 417
Making History Up: A Serial Question Mark 419
Index 425
