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1. Relationally Encoded Links and the Rhetoric of Hypertext

   Landow examines the rhetoric of linking in hypertext documents based on his experience with the Context32: A Web of English Literature system and argues for principles of relational logic in linking.

   Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 11:28

2. Where No Mind Has Gone Before: Ontological Design for Virtual Spaces

   Hypermedia designers have tried to move beyond the directed graph concept, which defines hypermedia structures as aggregations of nodes and links. A substantial body of work attempts to describe hypertexts in terms of extended or global spaces. According to this approach, nodes and links acquire meaning in relation to the space in which they are deployed. Some theory of space thus becomes essential for any advance in hypermedia design; but the type of space implied by electronic information systems, from hyperdocuments to “consensual hallucinations,” requires careful analysis. Familiar metaphors drawn from physics, architecture, and everyday experience have only limited descriptive or explanatory value for this type of space. As theorists of virtual reality point out, new information systems demand an internal rather than an external perspective.

   Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 11:55

3. Navigating Nowhere/Hypertext Infrawhere

   Various non-linear methods of structuring the lexia are discussed, including simultaneities and polylinearity. The simultaneity is similar to Aquanet relations. A distinction is drawn between the typical disjunctivity of the hypertext link and conjunctivity of simultaneities and relations. We begin the process of exploring the rhetoric of the conjunctive hypertext relation. Finally, the structuring of the lexia is intensified and extended into the fine structure of language itself: hypertext infrawhere.

   Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 14:05

4. Ut Pictura Hyperpoesis: Spatial Form, Visuality, and the Digital Word

   This essay discusses the visual characteristics of hypertext (space, contour, depth) by situating it, as an artistic form, in the literary traditions that it extends and modifies. While, from a literary perspective, hypertextuality is nothing new, what is revolutionary is the way that computerized hypertext emulates the spatial and visual qualities that literary texts have historically struggled to effect. To illustrate the concept of spatial form I have chosen to analyze the mola web, a hypertext which is unique, though not abnormal, in the extremity of its link structure. One needs only think of the ubiquitous metaphor of the labyrinth in hypertext criticism or of the recent attention given to spatial user interfaces to see how dependent is the idea of hypertext on a spatial form.

   Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 14:21

5. What is Hypertext?

   The most fundamental possible question that can be posed at a conference on hypertext, but one that is nonetheless difficult to answer, is: what is hypertext? Our answers to this question are not mere matters of definition, but define our community and the coherence of our message to others. We live in an age in which hypertext as a technology has become pervasive, and yet research interest in hypertext as such seems to be waning. How can this be explained? By looking into how we answer the question of what hypertext is, we may move toward an explanation of this trend.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 14:51

6. A Literatura Factorial [l!]

   By focusing on hyperfiction, this paper presents some proto-hyperfictions, dealing with literature's combinatorial processes (ars combinatoria), and with its composition based on permutations. This practice, which continues today, although using different techniques and effects, I call factorial literature [l!]. My aim is to introduce the concept of factorial literature as a transtemporal genre that has been intensified in the context of electronic literature. In the analysis of hyperfiction, I return to the definitions of hypertext by Theodor Holm Nelson (1965) and Gérard Genette (1982). Referring back to essays by Italo Calvino (1967) on literature, mathematics and cybernetics, and articles by Robert Coover (1992, 1993) about the new literary practices in digital environments, I prepare the coordinates for a revaluation of hyperfiction's recent history and its software, namely through the transient concept of constant restart, associated with the reader's new role as user.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 02.07.2013 - 17:01

7. A világháló metaforái

   A szerző széleskörűen mutatja be a művészet és a világháló kapcsolatát, igyekezvén egyensúlyban tartani e két terület összefonódásának pozitívumait és negatívumait egyaránt. Olvasmányos stílusa minden érdeklődőt kielégítően vezet be egy modern világba, s a világhálón megszületett „újszerű tudás” bemutatásával fontos térképe lehet mindazoknak, akik nem találják helyüket a mediatizált művészet útvesztőjében.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 00:28

8. Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume

   Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume

   Patricia Tomaszek - 04.07.2013 - 16:42

9. Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume: Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung

   Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume: Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung

   Patricia Tomaszek - 04.07.2013 - 16:45

10. Hypertext: Reading Between the Links

    Hypertext: Reading Between the Links

    Scott Rettberg - 05.07.2013 - 15:42

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