This collection of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber-culture studies, which has developed in parallel with the Internet and the World Wide Web over the past ten years. Its main purpose is to elaborate and apply to the field a new rhetoric that would be suitable and original. Or, as Espen Aarseth puts it in the introduction to ''Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and the Speaking C...

Miron Białoszewski was a Polish poet, novelist and playwright. He left two narratives of his trip to the United States in fall 1982: first one is travel log entitled AAmeryka [Aamerica] published 1988, five years after Białoszewski’s death: second part Tajny Dziennik [Secret diary], 2012. One could say about America, that it an “anti‑diary.” We can better appreciate uniqueness this book, if we ...

Subject-object dualism is not the essential root of our disrespect for non-human things; distance and difference are inherent to a collective ecology. This paper considers origins Nature’s transformation into mythical sublime, mirror human experience, alongside capitalism’s enclosure subjectivity space identity: container that creates both illusion we separate f...