Reading: Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. (low rez PDF)
- metatext, paratext
- ‘we must write with an awareness that we are writing in the presence of other texts”
- active reader-author
- Comments as a form of hypertext – active participation from reader
- Blogs: unsettling the borders between private and public spheres
- ‘borders of any documents on the internet are porous and provisional at best’
- links and search tools limit the power of authority
- When copying exactly a printed text into virtual space, experience and textuality changes, borders are broken
- Endings: ‘there can be no final word, no final version, no last thought…Always a new view, new idea, and reinterpretation.’
- Boundaries of open text: it is not a closed, complete, absolute object. Boundaries are blurred, not being what it is. (Derrida)…between absence and presence, inside and outside, self and other.