"Accessible only with a Microsoft browser, The Bubble Bath ironically reflects on proprietary software and the creative and political potential of hacktivism and cultural borrowing. Readers using other operating systems are presented with this message: 'The Bubble Bath is set in the eye of the occupying power called Microsoft. It is therefore indispensable to use camouflage, i.e. PC and Internet Explorer.' Once she accesses the text, the reader/bather is asked to reduce her protection level against viruses, in other words to risk herself in order to read. The Bubble Bath pushes the reader towards a double bath, the 'bubble bath' of the story but also a 'reading bath' where, in fact, she can only have the illusion of control." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2
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The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2
Published in 2011 by Electronic Literature Organization.
The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.
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