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1. The Interactive Diagram Sentence: Hypertext as a Medium of Thought

   Consideration of my work in poetry over more than twenty-five years begins with an analysis of the difficulties of juxtaposition for the poet. A diagram syntax notation provides a method for juxtapositions to be included in larger structures; the accessibility of structural elements in a diagram allows for such constructions as internal relationships and feedback loops. Juxtaposition itself, with no sacrifice of intelligibility, is achieved through an interactive device called a simultaneity. Finally the interactive diagram sentence is explored as a vehicle for hypertext as a medium of thought: this is a truly “native” mode of entirely non-linear thought.

   (Source: Author's abstract from Visible Language)

   Scott Rettberg - 03.02.2012 - 16:14

2. Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext

   Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext

   Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 21:45

3. The Strategic Pursuit of Collective IQ

   The Strategic Pursuit of Collective IQ

   Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 10:47

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. Potentialities of Literary Cybertext

   The application of cybertextual technologies to experimental poetics is the context for this brief exposition of my machine modulated literary work. I invoke theoretical issues of cybertext but these are not extensively explored. Instead, I raise issues crucial to the work described here — the role of (literary) text in cyberspace; silent reading in new visible language media; the confusions of computer as medium; the limitations of link-node hypertext; the shifting relationships between writer, reader and programmer; multi- and non-linear poetics; and the engagement of contemporary poetics with cybertext. The major part of the exposition then focuses on the work itself and certain of its future potentialities, with occasional reference to the more general, theoretical concerns.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 30.01.2015 - 16:44

6. Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext

   First written and published in 1996, the unrevised form of this essay now comes across, in
   certain respects, as ancient history – a function of the notorious acceleration of cultural and
   media development since the explosive growth of the Web after 1994. And yet, it chiefly
   describes a productive engagement with writing in programmable and, latterly, networked
   media which dates back, in my own case, to the late 1970s, an all-too-human, rather than
   silicon-enhanced, historical context.

   (Source: Author's Introduction)

   Alvaro Seica - 04.02.2015 - 17:50