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1. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization

   From the publisher: From Intermedia to Microcosm, Storyspace, and the World Wide Web, Landow offers specific information about the kinds of hypertext, different modes of linking, attitudes toward technology, and the proliferation of pornography and gambling on the Internet. For the third edition he includes new material on developing Internet-related technologies, considering in particular their increasingly global reach and the social and political implications of this trend as viewed from a postcolonial perspective. He also discusses blogs, interactive film, and the relation of hypermedia to games. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-text" of hypertext studies.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 25.08.2011 - 22:53

2. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

   Linking post-structuralist theory and developments in hypertext text technology, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology was for many the definitive work on hypertext during the 1990s and established hypertext as a field of serious critical discourse. 

   CONTENTS

   1. Hypertext and Critical Theory

   Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?
   The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept
   Other Convergences: Intertextuality, Multivocality, and De-Centeredness
   Vannevar Bush and the Memex
   Virtual Texts, Virtual Authors, and Literary Computing
   The Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical Theory
   Cause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence?
   Analogues to the Gutenberg Revolution
   Predictions

   2. Reconfiguring the Text

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:20

3. The Ecological Thought

   In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does “Nature” exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the ecological thought.

   In three concise chapters, Morton investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of environmental philosophy and theory, The Ecological Thought explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of global warming. Using Darwin and contemporary discoveries in life sciences as root texts, Morton describes a mesh of deeply interconnected life forms—intimate, strange, and lacking fixed identity.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 15:15

4. La poétique de l'espace

   In The Poetics of Space Bachelard applies the method of phenomenology to architecture basing his analysis not on purported origins but on lived experience of architecture. Wikipedia

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 13:52

5. Dissemination

   “The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination—more than any previous work—Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to ’deconstruct’ both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth.”—Peter Dews, New Statesman

   Jonatha Patrick Oliveira de Sousa - 06.10.2021 - 20:48