Hypertext: principles and applications
Nov 6 2007. Reminder -- Essay 3: Either offer a critical reading of a hyperfiction [probably a straight, linear essay] or produce a hyperfiction yourself; in either case, your text will amount to between 1500-2000 words; to be located on your website.
Hypertext: principles and applications:
and see critical discussions of hypertext by Miall & Dobson, Miall, Douglas under Further Reading on course page
Reading and writing hypertext
Digital editions (last week), examples of remediation
Hypertext fiction: afternoon (demonstrate)Hayles, Writing Machines (2002)
-- Author information: university page; Wikipedia
Preface
Remediation, 5
-- medial ecology, 5
representation (real referent) vs. simulation (no referent), 5
materiality that supports them - realities of, 6
first generation hypertexts (e.g., afternoon), p. 7
Chapter 1: Media and Materiality
Autobiography of "Kaye," 10-15
-- limitations of pure science, 13
-- literary studies: solving problems? / parochial, 15
the computer, its materiality, as vehicle for literature, 15
-- combining literature and science, 16
Chapter 2: Material metaphors
lack of attention to materiality of the literary; needed to explain change now, 19
material aspects of the literary, beond the image (animation, sound, etc.), 20material metaphor; the book as, 22
[ -- the material book: modifying our view of world, as vehicle to topic]
-- compare Reading Eye Dog, embodies metaphors, 23
inscription technologies, 24
technotexts: texts that foreground their own materiality, 25
hypertext, its three parts: multiplicity, chunked text, linking, 26
-- afternoon, 27
Aarseth's Ergodic literature - requires work of reader, 27-8 [Aarseth's introduction]
Media-specific analysis, 29
Vannevar Bush's memex (1945), 31 [online at The Atlantic]
How text is embodied, interacts with its rhetoric, etc., 31
-- vs. copyright conception of work as its "style and sentiment," notion of original genius, 31-2
materiality an emergent property in technotext, 33
printed book too useful to disappear; will continue to evolve, 33Reviews of Writing Machines: intelligent agent; Breviews; Dissarray; Invisible Culture
November 20. Hayles, Chs. 3-4; Gardner (2003); Electronic Literature Organization (for hyperfictions, etc.: see under Features, Electronic Literature Collection, v.1); Fisher, These Waves of Girls; Joyce, Twelve Blue
Essay 3 due November 27
Document created November 6th 2007