"In this collection Joyce continues to be one of the most lyrical, wide-ranging, and informed cultural critics and theorists of new media, the essays exhibit an evolving distrust of unconsidered claims for newness in the midst of what Joyce calls "the blizzard of the next" as well as a recurrent insistence upon grounding our experience of the emergence of network culture in the body." "This book will have wide appeal for general readers interested in new media and the internet as well as for specialists in literature, feminist and cultural studies, rhetoric, and interactivity. Students at all levels will be engaged by Joyce's provocative, poetical, and always accessible meditative and analytic power."--Jacket.