Hyper/text/theoryGeorge P. Landow, Professor George P Landow In his widely acclaimed book Hypertext George P. Landow described a radically new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. Now Landow has brought together a distinguished group of authorities to explore more fully the implications of hypertextual reading for contemporary literary theory. Among the contributors, Charles Ess uses the work of Jrgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School to examine hypertext's potential for true democratization. Stuart Moulthrop turns to Deleuze and Guattari as a point of departure for a study of the relation of hypertext and political power. Espen Aarseth places hypertext within a framework created by other forms of electronic textuality. David Kolb explores what hypertext implies for philosophy and philosophical discourse. Jane Yellowlees Douglas, Gunnar Liestol, and Mireille Rosello use contemporary theory to come to terms with hypertext narrative. Terrence Harpold investigates the hypertextual fiction of Michael Joyce. Drawing on Derrida, Lacan, and Wittgenstein, Gregory Ulmer offers an example of the new form of writing hypertextuality demands. |
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This argument is then subjected to qualifications derived from several thinkers
who question or supplement the line. The principal argument against web writing
in philosophy is straightforward: philosophy essentially involves argument, and ...
Furthermore, at none of these levels do the links function as moves in standard
arguments. ... to Hegel's attempt to capture and arrange into an interdependent
whole the set of contexts and categories that are the preconditions of argument.
A much longer version, in hypertext, more elaborated and more digressive, is
available in a set of essays on hypertext and philosophy (Hypertext, Argument,
Philosophy: Socrates * * in the Labyrinth [Cambridge, Mass.: Eastgate Systems ...