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1. Playable Media and Textual Instruments

   The statement that "this is not a game" has been employed in many ways — for example, to distinguish between high and low culture electronic texts, to market an immersive game meant to break the "magic circle" that separates games from the rest of life, to demarcate play experiences (digital or otherwise) that fall outside formal game definitions, and to distinguish between computer games and other forms of digital entertainment. This essay does not seek to praise some uses of this maneuver and condemn others. Rather, it simply points out that we are attempting to discuss a number of things that we play (and create for play) but that are arguably not games. Calling our experiences "interactive" would perhaps be accurate, but overly broad. An alternative — "playable" — is proposed, considered less as a category than as a quality that manifests in different ways. "Playable media" may be an appropriate way to discuss both games and the "not games" mentioned earlier.

   Jörgen Schäfer - 05.07.2011 - 13:35

2. Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.07.2011 - 16:37

3. Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth

   From the publisher: Ever since Gutenberg invented movable type we have lived in a culture dominated by print. Now we are in the midst of a communications revolution as profound as that which saw the printed book replace oral and manuscript texts. Hypertext- a way of connecting text, pictures, film, and sound in a nonlinear manner by electronic links- not only creates the forking paths and blind alleys of the electronic labyrinth but also provides our means of navigating through it. Hypertext is dramatically changing how we read and write, how we teach reading and writing, and how we define literary practices.In her knowledgeable guide to this revolutionary work, Ilana Snyder gives a lucid and straightforward overview of the radical effects that hypertext is having on textual practices. Focusing on what we mean by text, author, and reader, she explores the connections between the practical experience of hypertext and some of the key insights found in the works of critical theorists such as Barthes and Derrida, and hypertext theorists Land and Joyce.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.08.2011 - 13:27

4. The Institution of the Book: Why Shelley Jackson Doesn't Write Hypertext

   After all these years, Cayley is still troubled by the question of whether writing in other media, such as hypertext, can be a 'book.' Do writers need to write books in order to be writers?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.08.2011 - 16:58

5. Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star

   Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:14

6. 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

7. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing

   This book is a study of the computer as a new technology for reading and writing -- a technology that may replace the printing press as our principal medium of symbolic communication. One of the main subjects of Writing Space is hypertext, a technique that allows scientists, scholars, and creative writers to construct texts that interact with the needs and desires of the reader. Bolter explores both the theory and practice of hypertext, demonstrating that the computer as hypertext represents a new stage in the long history of writing, one that has far-reaching implications in the fields of human and artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, semiotics, and literary theory.

   Scott Rettberg - 06.09.2011 - 11:54

8. Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer

   Coover's second significant New York Times' Books article reviewed contemporary hypertexts most substantially including Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, as examples of works that have "printbound analogues" but suggested that new narrative forms were beginning to emerge.

   Scott Rettberg - 06.09.2011 - 13:38

9. Hyper/Text/Theory

   In his widely acclaimed book Hypertext George P. Landow described a radically new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. Now Landow has brought together a distinguished group of authorities to explore more fully the implications of hypertextual reading for contemporary literary theory.

   Among the contributors, Charles Ess uses the work of Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School to examine hypertext's potential for true democratization. Stuart Moulthrop turns to Deleuze and Guattari as a point of departure for a study of the relation of hypertext and political power. Espen Aarseth places hypertext within a framework created by other forms of electronic textuality. David Kolb explores what hypertext implies for philosophy and philosophical discourse. Jane Yellowlees Douglas, Gunnar Liestol, and Mireille Rosello use contemporary theory to come to terms with hypertext narrative. Terrence Harpold investigates the hypertextual fiction of Michael Joyce. Drawing on Derrida, Lacan, and Wittgenstein, Gregory Ulmer offers an example of the new form of writing hypertextuality demands.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.09.2011 - 08:36

10. 'What Is Seen Depends Upon How Everybody Is Doing Everything': Using Hypertext to Teach Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons

    'What Is Seen Depends Upon How Everybody Is Doing Everything': Using Hypertext to Teach Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons

    Dene Grigar - 06.10.2011 - 07:15

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