◎ contents 1. cybertext theory 1) aporia and epiphany in Doom and the Speaking Clock : the temporality of ergodic art / Espen Aarseth 2) theorizing virtual reality : Baudrillard and Derrida : Mark Poster 3) virtual topographies : smooth and striated cyberspace : Mark Nunes 4) cyberspace, virtuality, and the text / Marie-Laure Ryan 2. cyberspace identity 5) women writers and the restive text : feminism, experimental writing, and hypertext / Barbara Page 6) "the souls of cyber-folk" : performativity,virtual embodiment, and racial histories / Thomas Foster 7) the disturbing liveliness of machines : rethinking the body in hypertext theory and fiction / Christopher J.Keep 8) postorganic performance : the appearance of theater in virtual spaces / Matthew Causey 3. cybertext criticism as writing experiment 9) artificial life and literary culture / N.Katherine Hayles 10) virtual termites : a hypotextual technomutant explo(it)ration of William Gibson and the electronic beyond(s) / Lance Olsen 11) myths of the universal library : from Alexandria to the postmodern age / Jon Thiem