[from the site:] ãIf we need to kill the literary priest and the cinematic king, the turn to games could provide an occasion. I use these fighting words without any claim to innocence, suggesting that we enter a period of direct contention between existing and insurgent cultural forms. Since hard knocks will follow, let me define my assertion as carefully as possible. First, I do not suggest that literature or film studies have reached the end of their usefulness as disciplines, any more than Coover in his "End of Books" contemplated the abandonment of writing. Further, I would not rule out interdisciplinary exchanges, such as Cayley's enlightening readings out of late poststructuralism, Adrian Miles' importations from Deleuzean film theory, and other important boundary crossings. I insist only that nascent cultural formations around the theme of cybertext--and to be honest, I am thinking mainly of academic programs--not be conceived as subsidiaries of either literature or film. As Murray teaches, we should not stifle what is "new" in new media.ä