Markku Eskelinen & Raine Koskimaa (eds.) CyperText. Yearbook 2001 Research Center for Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä 200 pp, Paper, 30 Euro + Shipping ISBN 951-39-1173-X Kontakt oder: Research Center for Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä P.O. Box 35 FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, FINLAND The cutting edge even the print heads can't avoid… There's no easy way to go around the conceptual mess regarding the so-called new media. The usual theoretical approaches to it are either tautological in non-heuristic ways or somewhat montypythonesque - defining digital or networked and programmable media as something completely different - be that favourite other theatre, cinema, comics, or misread and badly applied continental philosophy. Cybertext theory is more interested in what a medium does than how it should be called. This kind of approach could be called a functional theory of media, and it is exactly what the essays in this book all do. Cybertextuality is understood here as a perspective allowing us to make elementary sense of the medium and start talking across traditions, practices, conventions and technologies. With a well balanced mix of scholarly articles this book hopes to create a broad forum for cybertext discussion, in which practitioners, developers, designers, users, critics, and scholars may participate. "The Cybertext Yearbook 2000 is a very timely and engaging volume. I do recommend the volume both to those who begin their adventure with cybertextuality and those whose are ready to move beyond the hyper and into the cyber." (Pavel Frelik, American Book Review) Content Markku Eskelinen & Raine Koskimaa INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF MEDIA; 7 Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Brion Moss THE IMPERMANENCE AGENT: PROJECT AND CONTEXT; 14 Katherine Parrish THE ERGODICS OF READING MOO - A NON-TRIVIAL PURSUIT; 60 Steve Tomasula (GENE)SIS; 75 Johanna Drucker RUSKIN'S HORROR OF THE FLESH: THE IDEOLOGY OF THE VIRTUAL; 88 Anders Fagerjord READING-VIEW(S)ING THE ÛBER-BOX - A CRITICAL VIEW ON A POPULAR PREDICTION; 100 Anna Gunder ASPECTS OF LINKOLOGY: A METHOD: FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF LINKS AND LINKING; 112 Francisco J. Ricardo INTERACTION SCIENCE: A GENERAL META-FRAMEWORK: FOR DIGITAL REPRESENTATION; 141 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; 193