Overview

In addition to the assigned material in the textbooks and course packet, required readings include:

Hypertexts Online

• my body: a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson
• The Doll Games by Shelley and Pamela Jackson
• These Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher
• The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot by Stephanie Strickland

Articles Online

• Interview MS. Found on a Floppy Disc: Some Reflections of "Processed Narratives" and David Blair's Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees by Larry McCaffery (printed copy on reserve in library)
• Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis by N. Katherine Hayles

Storyspace Hypertexts
(CD-ROMs on reserve in library/laptops -- links for informational purpose)

• afternoon, a story by Michael Joyce
• Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson

Below are some suggestions for the Web hypertext presentation assignment. You may also choose one not on this list with the permission of the instructor. We will divide up the list a couple weeks prior to the first presentation.

• 253: a novel for the Internet about London Underground in seven cars by Geoff Ryman
• Clues by Robert Kendall
• The Ed Report by William Gillespie and Nick Montfort
• Fibbonaci's Daughter by M.D. Coverley
• E:Electron by Deena Larsen and Geoffrey Gatza
• Lexia to Perplexia by Talan Memmott
• Bare Bones by Joellyn Rock
• The Unknown by William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, Scott Rettberg and Dirk Stratton
• Dorothy Abrona McCrae by Judy Malloy
• Grammatron by Mark Amerika
• The Fall of the Site of Marsha by Rob Wittig
• Reagan Library by Stuart Moulthrop

Links to general resources and secondary materials will go here.

Donald Barthelme

• Barthelmismo

William S. Burroughs

• Audio Files at UBU

Vannevar Bush

• TK3 version of "As We May Think" (ebook format, reader download also required)

Films

• Waxweb the online version of David Blair's film
• Memento the flash website for the film