Here, For Everybody:
The world of hypertext is broad, and class time is short. Next period we will all be bringing something to class. In a way, the challenge of our "other texts" class period will be like the challenges of every class period in which we have discussed a text we could not exhaust. How do we discuss material that not everyone has seen? With this in mind, I chosen two touchstones for my class presentation class. These are nice quick reads, and can be read "exhaustively." Please consider looking them over to enhance your experience of my guide-ship.
Keep in mind that you are expected to bring something of your own to class. You'll find my texts listed among your below. As the organizing principle of this class is personal picks, they are parsed by personality.
My personal suggestion for selection would be the principle of novelty, as there is so much to cover and so little time. Let me know your selections as early as you can - the more you do this, the better a presentation I will be able to give. You may wish to highlight a particular part of a larger work, or frame the work you selected with a particular question or issue.
Don't forget that we are a reading community. Please consider rebroadcasting your single selection not just to me but to the entire group, so that we may all participate in each other's readings and get more out of class.
Remember that if you pick things which are publicly available on the internet or can be brought to class and passed around, it will be much easier for us discuss them. If you have things you wish to contribute which need to be installed, I can temporarily install them on my laptop (or you might ask Alan) so that they will be available.
Cheers, (and feedback welcomed)
Jeremy
I had already made my way through Lies when Jeremy sent out his e-mail, so
I thought that in the interest of diversity (and because "Lies" is pretty short),
I'd also look at Alphaweb
by Diana Reed Slattery.
http://raven.ubalt.edu/guests/alphaweb/
Since that was also fairly brief (a poem or series of poems, depending on how
you want to look at it), this morning I jumped into LoveOne
by Judy Malloy, although I don't know if I'll get through enough of it by classtime
to have much to say about it. Might be worth a perusal, however.
http://www.eastgate.com/malloy/welcome.html
I'm reading "Winter Break"
by Adrienne Eisen. The link on the EOL list of reccomended fiction cites Mark
Amerika calling Eisen "the hypertext world's Kathy Acker." Well. So far it's
not close but I'll let you know at 2.
http://www.apc.net/adrienne/winterbreak
LIES
http://www.users.interport.net/~rick/lies/lies.html
I recommend reading the About, but reading it after. This is an early work,
and one graceful solution to the problem of how to make floating paragraphs
cohere into a multiplicity of interpretation.
253
http://www.ryman-novel.com/
This is a story where the motivation to read is clear and present without being
transplanted from traditional linear fiction. A pageless pageturner.
I'm taking a look at William Powhida, Projection
(1999)
http://www.hypertxt.com/sh/hyper98/projection/projproj1.html