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The tenuous dynamics of Phoebe Senger's split story lead Lucy Suchman to ponder "methods and madness" in the metaphors we live by.

As alternatives to agency-obsession, "critical technical practices" that connect art and technology are front and center in the work of Michael Mateas.

"Critical videogames": moving beyond the non sequiter of now, Gonzalo Frasca projects a future in which the phrase would make sense.

Mizuko Ito recounts her experience at an unusual gaming convention in Japan, and posits fan culture as a way to understand software.

Eric Zimmerman modifies Gonzalo Frasca's game strategy with a strategic patch.

Simon Penny recalls that the origins of the human-computer interface, politicized by a military heritage, are now explored by artist-enigineers who chaperone fragmentation and dissent.

Eugene Thacker sees ethical acting as a potential stumbling block, one that trips up technological complicity.

The "cognitive entailments" of a reader, or "interactor," are where Katherine Hayles redirects the new aesthetics of electronic textuality.

Sidebar images, "From Work to Play: Molecular Culture in the Time of Deadly Games."

U.S. cybernetic pragmatisim and practical Net expertise interest Moulthrop (and his auditors) on "second thought."