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1. The Miranda Warnings: An Experiment in Hypertext

   The Miranda Warnings: An Experiment in Hypertext

   Scott Rettberg - 26.06.2013 - 13:08

2. Hypertexte et fiction: la question du lien

   La première caractéristique de l'entreprise de numérisation à l'oeuvre dans les arts et les lettres est la dématérialisation de leurs supports spécifiques. Dans le cas de la littérature, cette dématérialisation conduit à une rupture avec notre culture du livre qui va au-delà d'un simple changement de support. Nos modes de pensée et nos formes de mise en discours sont, en effet, si intimement liées au livre que son effacement programmé dans l'univers du numérique produit un ébranlement qui n'est pas seulement technologique mais aussi intellectuel et épistémologique. Pour le dire brièvement, le livre, de par sa nature propre, est fondé d'abord sur la succession des pages et secondairement sur une organisation hiérarchisée de sa matière rendue possible par la mise en place progressive d'outils destinés à en faciliter la consultation tels que la division en chapitres ou la table des matières. Ces deux caractéristiques essentielles que sont la linéarité des pages et la hiérarchisation des contenus ont contribué à modeler durablement notre habitus discursif et rhétorique. Avec l'hypertexte, elles sont toutes les deux remises en question.

   Scott Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 20:20

3. No War Machine

   No War Machine

   Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 20:04

4. 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

5. Electronic Literature

   Entry on electronic literature providing a history of the term and exploring its contended usage.

   Electronic literature is a generalized term used to describe a wide variety of computational literary practices beneath one broad umbrella, defined by the Electronic Literature Organization as “works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.”

   Scott Rettberg - 01.11.2013 - 09:58

6. Collaborative Narrative

   Brief entry on collaborative narrative situating collaboration in hypertext and online writing contexts.

   Collaboratively written narratives are not specific to new media: a number of works within the Western cultural and literary canon, for example the epics of Homer, the Judeo-Christian Bible, and Beowulf, are believed to have been developed through collaborative storytelling and writing processes. It can however be said that collaborative writing practices are more prevalent in contemporary digital media than in print.

   Electronic literature authors most often write within software platforms that are themselves “authored”—every time someone opens up Photoshop, or Flash, they are reminded of the long list of developers who actually wrote the software. So even making use of a particular application is a type of collaboration. There is a greater degree of transparency to the collective efforts involved in digital media production than to traditional literary production.

   (Source: Author's introduction)

   Scott Rettberg - 01.11.2013 - 11:53

7. 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

8. The American Hypertext Novel, and Whatever Became of It?

   The chapter provides a brief history of experiments in the hypertext novel in America during the 1990s. The 1990 Eastgate publication of Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, A Story earned hypertext fiction a place within institutionalised literary culture. Robert Coover’s 1992 essay "The End of Books" announced hypertext fiction as a challenge to traditional conceptions such as narrative linearity, the sense of closure, and the “desire for coherence.” While some theorists, such as George Landow, praised hypertext for instantiating poststructuralist theory, others such as Sven Birkerts, in The Gutenberg Elegies, regarded it with strong concern. The publication of more hypertext fictions such as Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden (1991) and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995) resulted in a small, dedicated interest community. However, no paradigm-shifting rise in interest took place.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.04.2015 - 16:27

9. Posthyperfiction: Practices in Digital Textuality

   By the turn of the millennium hypertext fiction was no longer the predominant form of digital writing produced by authors of electronic literature. In recent years, electronic poetry is more often produced than hypertext fiction, and rich multimedia largely predominates over text. Yet some notable exceptions, such as Judd Morrissey’s database narrative The Last Performance (2007), and Paul La Farge’s Luminous Airplanes (2011) are continuing to push the hypertext novel in some new directions. If hypertext per se is no longer predominant, many aspects of hypertext fiction, such as trigger actions that extend narrative texts and texts that integrate elements of spatial navigation, are increasingly integrated into newer forms such as locative narrative and virtual reality narratives.

   Scott Rettberg - 27.04.2015 - 09:51

10. Linking Strategies

    Linking Strategies

    Daniela Ørvik - 29.04.2015 - 16:43

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