The Agrippa Files

Quittner, Josh. “When Art Resembles National Security” (Sidebar).

Newsday 16 June 1992. Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005. http://eserver.org/cyber/newsday.txt

News article about technologically-enabled texts, including Agrippa; also features a sidebar about the specific code used to generate Agrippa’s self-encrypting text. (more…)

Quittner, Josh. “Read Any Good Webs Lately?”

Newsday 16 June 1992. Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005: 63. http://eserver.org/cyber/newsday.txt

News article about technologically-enabled texts, including Agrippa; also features a sidebar about the specific code used to generate Agrippa’s self-encrypting text. (more…)

Quittner, Joshua. “‘Webs’: Avant-Garde Storytelling On Computer.”

St Louis Post-Dispatch 24 June 1992: 1F.

Article discusses the expectations and considerations surrounding hypertext at the time of Agrippa’s release, including comments from George Landow. (more…)

Martin, Guy. “Read It Once.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. Esquire Magazine May 1992: 33.

Article provides a brief preview and review of the project, including a detailed description of the book itself. (more…)

Lowenthal, Alex. “A Tale of Three Futurists.”

Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005. http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/future/j7/LOWENTHAL.pdf

Article includes a biography of Gibson with a description of Agrippa. (more…)

Killheffer, Robert. “The Shape of Books to Come: a Collaborative Book Challenges Ideas about the Immortality of Art– ‘Agrippa: A Book of the Dead’ by William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. Omni Jan 1993: 14(1). Retrieved 30 September 2005. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n4_v15/ai_13304888

This article offers a substantial review of the book and its broadcast with commentary from Ashbaugh and Begos. (more…)

Jonas, Gerald. “The Disappearing $2,000 Book.”

New York Times 29 Aug. 1993: BR12.

A full-length discussion of the text including comments from Begos, Gibson and Ashbaugh. (more…)

Jirgens, Karl E. “Gibson Satire Fights the Hype.”

Rev. of All Tomorrow’s Parties, by William Gibson. Eye Weekly 2 Dec. 1999. Retrieved 31 Aug. 2005. http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.02.99/arts/books.html

This review of Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties also references Agrippa. (more…)

Holderness, Mike. “Vanishing Act Caught in the Net.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. New Scientist 20 Mar. 1993: 45.

Article offers a short review of Agrippa and its early transcription on the net. (more…)

Fein, Esther B. “Read It, and It’s Gone.”

Rev. of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, by William Gibson. Book Notes, New York Times 18 Nov. 1992: C26.

Short item in the Book Notes column of the Times about the book (”and the word is used in the loosest sense possible”) contemporary to its release. Includes a description of the book and Gibson’s scrolling poem based on announcements from, and an interview with, the publisher. (more…)