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1. Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon

   This paper is a reading of a classic of hypertext narrative: Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story. Several writers have discussed afternoon previously. However I have chosen to explore afternoon from a different angle by using theories of narratology, especially Genette. In this reading, I explore ways in which the text confuses the reader but also the many stabilising elements that aid the reader to piece together a story.

   NB: Published under author's unmarried name, Jill Walker.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:40

2. Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age

   29 October 1999 Keynote Address, Digital Arts and Culture Atlanta, Georgia (This speech was also published in Feed in 2000.) Coover's DAC Keynote address discussed the transition from the "golden age" of narrative-driven, text-dominated hypertext fiction, mainly produced in Storyspace, to an era dominated by the practices and attention spans of the World Wide Web, and a new focus on the image.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 16:18

3. The Lyrical Quality of Links

   A short paper arguing that hypertext might be a lyrical rather that a narrative form. It proposes the close examination of explicit links as the starting point for a study of hyperfiction rhetoric.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 20:15

4. In the Event of Text

   In the Event of Text

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.06.2012 - 12:39

5. Authors, Readers, and Progression in Hypertext Narrative

   George Landow, Espen J. Aarseth, Stuart Moulthrop and many
   others have heralded the development of hypertext because they
   believe it represents a revolution in textuality that will radically
   alter how we read and write, including of course how we read and
   write narrative. Print texts, we are reminded by the champions of
   this new medium, are linear while hypertexts are nonlinear.
   Consequently, the argument goes, print narratives encourage reading
   in a fixed, straight-line sequence—one word after another, one
   page after another—under the control of the author. Even postmodern
   attempts to subvert the fixity of the print sequence cannot
   overcome the stability of the printed page and the restrictions on
   format imposed by the traditional book. Hypertext narratives, on
   the other hand, are fluid by design; their sequence changes based
   on readerly decisions. To put it another way, as those who advance
   this argument sometimes do, readers approach hypertext narratives
   from variable positions within the narrative, and so their progression
   through the text—indeed, the progression of the text—is not

   Patricia Tomaszek - 16.11.2012 - 15:32

6. From page to screen: placing hypertext fiction in an historical and contemporary context of print and electronic literary experiments

   Only recently has our perception of the computer, now a familiar and ubiquitous element of everyday life, changed from seeing it as a mere tool to regarding it as a medium for creative expression. Computer technologies such as multimedia and hypertext applications have sparked an active critical debate not only about the future of the book format, ("the late age of print" {Bolter} is only one term used to describe the shift away from traditional print media to new forms of electronic communication) but also about the future of literature. Hypertext Fiction is the most prominent of proposed electronic literary forms and strong claims have been made about it: it will radically alter concepts of text, author and reader, enable forms of non-linear writing closer to the associative working of the mind, and make possible reader interaction with the text on a level impossible in printed text. So far the debate that has attempted to put hypertext fiction into a historical perspective has linked it to two developments.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 23:40

7. Literary Programming (In the Age of Digital Transliteration)

   This paper is proposed as the second part of an essay, the first part of which was presented at DAC'98, having the overall title 'Performances of Writing in the Age of Digital Transliteration'. Part one of this essay raised questions -- contextualized by reference to Walter Benjamin and Friedrich Kittler, amongst others -- concerning the intrinsically digital characteristics of text, along with certain implications of these characteristics (and what they have entailed, specifically and especially: the Net) for traditional literary culture, for the latter's critique, and for textual, especially artistic textual practices.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 01:23

8. Three-Dimensional Dementia: Hypertext Fiction and the Aesthetics of Forgetting

   Hypertext (the non-sequential linking of text(s) and images) was first envisioned by Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson in its prehistory as an associational, archival storage system suitable for classifying and sorting vast quantities of information. But where library databases, technical manuals and other knowledge-based hypertexts still fulfill this function, literary hypertext overturns this proposed usage, celebrating both information overload and forgetfulness as the desired end of a reading. Promoting disassociation and an awareness of the spatio-temporal dimensions of its environment, hypertext fiction uses the aesthetics of its three-dimensional interface and structure to frustrate memory and to engender a sensory and emotional response in the reader. Focusing on M.D. Coverley's multimedia hypertext Califia, I will investigate how the aesthetics of the hypertext form become an engine of forgetfulness that drives her text through its explorations of lost memories, including the ravages of Alzheimer's, unofficial histories, secrets, missing pieces and the quest for hidden treasure.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 12:26

9. Intervals and Links: The Indeterminancy of a Link's Possible Future

   This paper proposes that link node hypertext can be conceived of as a postcinematic discourse and that a major mechanism of this geneology is available through the comparison of the hypertext link to the cinematic edit. I wish to consider the hypertext link from the point of view of Deleuze's cinematic 'sensory motor schema' where the link can be considered as analogous to Bergson's zone of indetermination between perception and reaction. This work builds upon recent theoretical work that has attempted to define hypertext as a temporal or cinematic medium.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 13:32

10. Lines for a Virtual T[y/o]pography: Electronic Essays on Artifice and Information

    This dissertation is comprised by five interrelated electronic essays (plus a VRML installation) on artifice, information, and aesthetics. Each essay has been conceived as an intervention in the current critical discourse of new media studies. The essays oscillate loosely between the twin graphical themes of typography and topography, evoking what a recent writer in ArtByte magazine has called (in another context) "a vast network of dislocated visual events." The first essay, "A White Paper on Information," argues for a fundamental shift in the nature of information in the midst of our current "Information Age," a shift recognizing information (data) as a historically and epistemologically distinct category of representation; this shift, I argue, is a direct result of the rise (since the mid-eighties) of computer graphics and information design as leading-edge research areas in computer science.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 29.06.2013 - 01:22

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