The work has been indexed at
ELMCIP's Knowledge Base and exhibited at the Electronic Literature Organization's first conference and media art show,
State of the Arts, in 2002. It has been the subject of critical essays by Astrid Ensslin (2007), Anne Mangen (2006) and Mark Bernstein (2002). Bly has written extensively about his work, most recently for
Authoring Software, a blog published by Judy Malloy, reprinted here in this book. Bly's papers, including ephemera from
We Descend, Volume One, are archived at
"The Bly Collection" at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, located at the University of Maryland College Park.