Online Readings

This is a new page and it consists of a series of online essays from a variety of sources on a vaster variety of subjects relating to writing.

 

• Hypertext Essays: renaissance/publications
• The Heresy of Hypertext: Fear and Anxiety in the Late Age of Print
• A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evin Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wixzards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society
• Information Literacy as a Liberal Art: Enlightenment proposa;s for a new curriculum
• Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print
• An Excerpt for The Electronic Word by Richard Lanham
• "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" (short version)
• "Women Making Meaning: Moving through the Cracks"
• "From Data and Information to Learning and Understanding"
• The Gutenberg Elegies
• The Reading Wheel: Or Hypertext before Computers
• Ex Libris The joys of curling up with a good digital reading device

Print Text and Print Culture

• The History of Printing by Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopaedia:
  

Hypertext

• The Electronic Labyrinth
• The Victorian Web project.
• Kairos an online hypertext journal.
• VR and the Self with Jay David Bolter
• The New Hyperdrama: How hypertext scripts are changing the parameters of dramatic storytelling Charles Deemer
• Page versus Pixel
• Hyperizons: Theory and Technique of Hypertext Fiction
• Politexts, Hypertext, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print Nancy Kaplan
• The Rationale of HyperText Jerome McGann
• Ut Pictura Hyperpoesis: Spatial Form, Visuality and the Digital World John Tolva
• Some Hypertext Sites
• Miscellaneous literary-hypertext links
• The famous Hypertext Hotel
• Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
• Geek Boutique: A Brief Cyberhistory
  

VR, Virtual Reality, What is It? Where are We Going With It?

• Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Rosanne Stone
• Hyperlink to Donna Haraway
• Cyberpunk Fiction
• The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace Michael Heim
• The Materiality of Informatics - Configurations 1:1 N. Katherine Hayle
• CTHEORY
• Border Crossing - Cyborgs
• Sociological Implications of Information Technology
• Social Implications of Technology
• The Political Economy Of Virtual Reality: Pan-Capitalism Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein
• Nietzsche at the Mall: Deconstructing the Consumer Daniel R. White and Gert Hellerick
• The Social Implications of Information Technology
• Cybernetic Captialism: Information, Technology, Everyday Life K. Robins and F. Webster
• Media, Technology, and the Market: the Interacting Dynamic Herbert I. Schiller
  

Privacy?

• Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies
• Epic-Electronic Privacy Information Act
• From Big Brother to Electronic Panopticon David Lyon
• The Simulation of Surveillance William Bogard
• MUDs And Their Social Implications
• A profile of Sherry Turkle and her take on role-playing in cyberspace by Pamela McCorduck
• Metaworlds Robert Rossney
• Virtual Communities