hypertext
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Video on Demand
How many times have we been told that digital technology will fundamentally alter the way we interact with text? There was hypertext fiction, which added hyperlinks so you could choose your own path through a story. Pfft. There was the…
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The Rumpus Hypertext Interview with Maya Lang
Author Maya Lang discusses her Joyce-inspired novel The Sixteenth of June, the “illiterate, underbred” epic Ulysses, and the insufficiency of “yes” in an interactive interview with Allison Adair.
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Thank You, Hypertext
The book was, we can now see, crying out for the invention of the web, which would enable the holding of multiple domains of knowledge in the mind at one time that a proper reading requires. At the Guardian, Billy…
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anhedonia and Hypertext
Depression is often marked by this type of absence—loss of pleasure, loss of energy, loss of meaning. It is frequently described as a type of nothingness, and while that nothingness is something, it can elude usual means of communication.