CONTENTS
Acknowledgments = ⅶ
Introduction / Marie-Laure Ryan = 1
PART Ⅰ Cybertext Theory
1. Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and The Speaking Clock : The Temporality of Ergodic Art / Espen Aarseth = 31
2. Theorizing Virtual Reality : Baudrillard and Derrida / Hark Poster = 42
3. Virtual Topographies : Smooth and Striated Cyberspace / Mark Nunes = 61
4. Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Text / Marie-Laure Ryan = 78
PART Ⅱ Cyberspace Identity
5. Women Writers and the Restive Text : Feminism, Experimental Writing, and Hypertext / Barbara Page = 111
6. "The Souls of Cyber-Folk" : Performativity, Virtual Embodiment, and Racial Histories / Thomas Foster = 137
7. The Disturbing Liveliness of Machines : Rethinking the Body in Hypertext Theory and Fiction / Christopher J. Keep = 164
8. Postorganic Performance : The Appearance of Theater in Virtual Spaces / Matthew Causey = 182
PART Ⅲ Cybertext Criticism as Writing Experiment
9. Artificial Life and Literary Culture / N Katherine Hayles = 205
10. Virtual Termites : A Hypotextual Technomutant Explo(it)ration of William Gibson and the Electronic Beyond(s) / Lance Olsen = 224
11. Myths of the Universal Library : From Alexandria to the Postmodern Age / Jon Thiem = 256
Appendix World Wide Web Sites on Cyberspace Textuality = 267
Contributors = 275
Index = 279
