Month: August 2013
You Them Us
It is a good explanation if you're still not sure what this idea of an audience and your blog is about, or who it might be. ... The cool thing about a blog, you can imagine this audience but over tim... Read More
Lives Are Loose Ends
Where does this anxiety of the open come from (if your life was structured like a novel it would be hell, in a novel or a fictional film there is no such thing as chance or coincidence, everything hap... Read More
Dead Trees
Nadine enjoyed the symposium, recognises that the essence of the literary is not paper (it is language), but also has an excellent outline of what we said about hypertext and cinema. ... Yet in the ... Read More
Landow, Hypertext, the Mess of it All
Jennifer does an interesting speculative turn where if hypertext keep changing, then are they, in some small way, alive, or at least, like something living? I think the answer's probably no, but th... Read More
Endings Aren’t Really Real
(Yep, one of the defences of something like hypertext and other messy forms is that it is more 'realistic' than realism in fiction because, well, the real world is not just so cause and effect as a no... Read More
Damn You People Write a Lot
Sophie also has notes, and loves books and her e-reader (me too, personally, and I'm serious, if you love what books do, rather than what they are as things, then how could you not enjoy some of the ... Read More
Unsymposium 0.3 VoxPops
I'd add more to that, hypertext is not just multiple meanings, but that the thing you read or watch each time changes in itself, so what we read is also multiple. ... Patrick thinks about hypertext, ... Read More