Part Two: The Politics of Hypertext
The reading and links below are arranged in the order found in the Study Guide and complement the essays found in the Reading File.
Introduction
Umberto Eco, From Internet to Gutenberg. November, 1996.
Mat Callahan, Technology and Liberation in a Messianic Age. Oct. 2000.
1. Hypertext as a Medium and as a Technology
Text and Image as Game and as Poetry
Juan Caramuel de Lobkowtiz, Primus calamus ob oculos ponens metametricam. (Rome, 1663)
First plate, poems combining words and images, three-imensional writing
Second plate, poem on a game board
Third plate, anti-linear labyrinth
Tom Purdue, Home Page. "Virtual Text." June, 2001.
"Interactive Poetry." June, 2001.
3. The Rhetoric of Hypertext
Gideon Burton. Web Page. "The Forest of Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae." June, 2001
4. Towards a Politics of Hypertext
Raine Koskimaa. "Visual Structuring of Hyperfiction Narratives." Threads6. (Winter, 1997-98)
Diane Greco. "Hypertext with Consequences: Recovering a Politics of hypertext."
Stuart Moulthrop. "Hegirascope" Version 2. New River Vol. 3 (October 1997)
John Tolva and David Balcom. "This is Your Brain on the Internet: A Review of Stuart Moulthropís Hegirascope." Kairos 1.2
Tim McLauglin, Christopher Keep and Robin Parmar. The Electronic Labyrinth. June 2001
5. Mapping Cyberculture
Isabel Chang. "High : Rise" June, 2001