Shields, WTF?
I honestly have no idea what David Shields is on about. I really tried hard to read his essay with an open mind but I just couldn’t understand any of it. Why is the novel dead? What is an “anti-novel”?… Continue Reading
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Reading 06 – The End of Books – or Books without Ends?
Most interesting for me in these extracts is Douglas’ examination into whether narratives which use hypertext may privilege some readings over others. As the reader directs the chronology of the narrative, there will inevitably be many different paths taken. Will… Continue Reading
05.1 Landow Hypertext 3.0
Reading extracts from George P. Landow, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Landow writes about what he defines as “the third kind of hypertext essay”, in which the writer collates multiple networked documents together in… Continue Reading
Hypertext
While I was reading Nelson’s writing on Hypertext I couldn’t quite place my finger on what the concept reminded me of. I found it extremely prophetic given what the Web looks like right now, particularly in it’s absolute lack of… Continue Reading