Labor of Love. Rick
Perlstein reports on the thorny relationship between labor and academia. (October 23
'96)
The Sokal
Affair. Gary
Chapman explains
the latest academic scandal. (June 6 '96)
The Price of Success. David
Greenberg on liberalism's ironic legacy. (November 18 '96)
Between Hype and Hypocrisy. David
Greenberg, Ellen Willis, Matthew Rees, and
Laura Ingraham examine the new practice of book-based campaigning, analyzing passages from
Clinton's Between Hope and History, and the Dole/Kemp book, Trusting the
People. (October 11 '96)
Whatever
Politics.
David Greenberg looks at
the new rhetoric of tolerance
and how the abortion issue has loosened up the GOP. (July 25 '96)
Party Crashing.
David
Greenberg
dissects the recent
fantasies of "third party" politics. (April 15 '96)
One Nation Underpaid.
A panel of prominent economists (Sheldon Danziger, William Dickens, Doug
Henwood, and
James Taranto)
discusses
Wage Stagnation. (March 5 '96)
Mainstream
Extremism.
David Greenberg looks at the backlash against Pat Buchanan. (March 4 '96)
Prohibition and Its
Discontents. An all star
panel of drug policy activists and analysts (John Perry Barlow, Mark
Kleiman, Imani
Woods, Peter Cohen, and Ethan Nadelmann)
discusses alternatives to the War on Drugs. (December 18 '95)
Affirmative
Reaction.David Greenberg looks at the recent backlash against
Affirmative
Action.
(August 16 '95)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour. David
Greenberg watches the Republicans romancing the Enola Gay. (May 10
'95)
The Great Leap Downward. Mark Pesce on
the Politics of VRML. (February 14 '97)
Quake Tectonics. J.J. Gifford tells
why the 3D video game Quake means more than just mayhem. (September 28 '96)
Beyond the Desktop.
Prominent designers Bruce Tognazzini, S. Joy Mountford, Joe
Belfiore and Mark Pesce discuss interface design (September 1 '96)
Apple Cored.
Digital Media editor Mitch Ratcliffe dissects the recent Apple crisis.
(February 20 '96)
Unplugging Bill
Gates. Jerry
Michalski, Denise Caruso, Mark Slouka, and FEED's editors
annotate "The Road Ahead." (January 8 '96)
Public Life in
Electropolis. Stacy Horn, William Mitchell, Howard Rheingold and
Mark
Slouka discuss virtual communities. (August 15 '95)
Page Versus Pixel. Sven
Bikerts,
Caroline Guyer, Bob Stein and Michael Joyce discuss the cultural
consequences of electronic text. (June 1 '95)
Gnats Entertainment.
Amanda Griscom on Microcosmos and the New Biology. (January 15 '97)
Paranoid's
Delight.
FEED Editor Steven Johnson mourns the
passing of the classic
conspiracy flick. (June 6 '96)
The Indie
Allure. Mary Granfield explains why a low budget doesn't always
make
for a good
movie. (April 4 '96)
Virtually Hollywood.
Gary
Dauphin on this summer's failed cyberflicks. (December 2 '95)
Andrew Meier on Russia's octogenarian drug dealers.
(May 21
'96)
Cuban Intermezzo. Andrew
Meier
reports back from Fidel's fading regime.
With photos by Jaqueline Mia Foster. (November 12, '95)
Dismantling Berlin. Mark Tribe
wanders through the rubble of post-unification Germany. (July 7 '95)
Monumental Rock.
Alexander Star
checks out the latest in institutionalized rebellion. (January 3 '96)
The Ten-Second Top Fifty.
In a special FEED feature, eminent musicians, music critics and FEED readers nominate the
best musical soundbites of all time. (December 19 '96)
They're Playing Our
Songs.
Bill Gifford unearths the cultural and corporate history of Muzak.
(November 2 '95)
Nothing's Going to Happen. Alex
Ross
ventures down under in search of New Zealand Rock. (May 17 '95)
Return of the Trilogy. In a
Special FEED Document, J.J. GIfford and the FEED editors annotate before-and-after shots of
Star Wars Special Edition. (February 10 '96)
Mall of the Wild. Hans Eisenbeis
treks across the Mall of America. (December 17 '96)
Becoming Her. A Feed Dialog -- the
first of several joint projects between FEED and The New York Times on the Web -- on women
icons, featuring Katha Pollitt, Nancy Friday, Martha Sherrill and Bram Dijkstra. (November
20 '96).
Bad Vibrations. Tom Perrotta
digs up the twisted roots of the 1960s myth. (October 23 '96)
Murder By
Numbers. Mark Seltzer explores our
cultural obsession with serial killers. (August 31 '96)
The Molester
Within. Mary Granfield critiques the hysteria surrounding child
sexuality.
(June 6 '96)
Memoirs of an
Infowhore.
Sam Lipsyte's hilarious
behind-the-scenes look at the making of an infomercial. (February 27 '96)
Apocalypse,
California-Style.
FEED editor Stefanie Syman examines Los Angeles' new
doomsday look. (January 26 '96)
The Best and Worst of
1995. Our
Filter commentators review the highs and lows
of the past year's media happenings. (January 4 '96)
Notes From the
Underground. Laura Powers on Madison Avenue's bid for the
straphanging
consumer.
(September 18 '95)
Believe The Hype.
Steven Johnson on the Great Web Backlash. (January 16 '97)
Channel TCP.
Andrew Shapiro explains why he doesn't want his WebTV. (December 6 '96)
Wiring the Fourth
Estate.
The FEED Dialog
on Web Journalism, featuring Slate's Michael
Kinsley, HotWired's Gary Wolf,
and Word's Marisa Bowe. (June 28 '96)
Written on the Web.
Carolyn
Guyer looks at hypertext fiction. (September 18 '95)
Marketing Freedom. A FEED Document
on the limits of Libertarianism, with all-star panelists Ellen WIllis, John Fund, Paulina
Borsook and Omar Wasow. (January 18 '97)
Beta Journalism. G. Beato looks at the
Web's "dark alliance" with tabloid TV. (November 26 '96)
Decency
Reconsidered. The FEED
Document on the landmark Philadelphia decision which declared the
Communications
Decency Act unconstitutional.
Featuring Senator James Exon, The New Republic's Jeffrey
Rosen, L.A. Times Columnist Gary Chapman, and anti-porn activist Bruce
Taylor. (July
16 '96)
Sympathy for the
Unabomber?
Mark
Slouka on the perils of taking
on
contemporary technoculture. (May 11 '96)
Netizen Caned.
Suck's
Carl Steadman takes
a critical look at HotWired's Way New journalism. (Mar 7 '96)
Electrifying the Acid
Test Gary
Chapman
on the sixties legacy in today's cyber-culture. (Oct 6 '95)
The Exon Divide. Gary Chapman
uncovers the real issues beneath the Net Censorship debate. (July 7 '95)
Victorians Lost in Space.
Stefanie
Syman searches for family values in Newt's techno-utopia. (May 17 '95)
The Magna Carta for the Knowledge
Age.
Annotations by Phil Bereano, Gary Chapman, David Gelernter, Katherine
Hayles. (May 17 '95)
Who Owns Virtuality? Jaron
Lanier examines Newt's hi-tech jargon. (May 10 '95)
Bionomics 101. Paulina Borsook
takes a look at the rise of fiscal Darwinism. (October 18 '96)
Could You Patent The
Sun?
Phil Bereano looks at two chilling stories of DNA prospecting. (September
24 '95)