an online journal and community discussion site that deals specifically with the disciplines of critical theory, art and media theory, Cultural Studies, literature, psychoanalysis, philosophy, as well as sociology and anthropology in general, specifically in its applications to digital culture and new media as well as contemporary political life. Issues such as biotechnology, post- or transhumanism, mixed realities, context hacking, and digital urbanities will find a rich ground of theoretical explorations on this site.
"Not only among literary theoreticians and critics, but also among students of rhetoric, communication and media, stylisticians, discourse and dialogue analysts, historians of the book, and social and cultural philosophers and historians, there is a growing tendency to see literary activity as one among other forms of human communication. "
"We spend hours on the web, but you wouldn't know that from reading contemporary fiction. Novelists have gone to great lengths - setting stories in the past or in remote places - to avoid dealing with the internet. Is this finally changing, asks Laura Miller"