Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and PoeticsIn Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely well qualified to explore this stimulating topic. The essays comprise what Joyce calls "theoretical narratives," woven from e-mail messages, hypertext "nodes," and other kinds of electronic text that move nomadically from one occasion or perspective to another, between the poles of art and instruction , teaching and writing. The nomadic movement of ideas is made effortless by the electronic medium, which makes it easy to cross borders (or erase them) with the swipe of a mouse, and which therefore challenges our notions of intellectual and artistic borders. Joyce makes it clear that we are not just the natural heirs but, through our visions, the architects of new technologies that promise to enact our visions as much as change them. The collection summons writing from artists, poets, teachers, scientists, and feminist thinkers, and in so doing builds on notions of human possibility as a basis for the broadest kind of conversation in what Joyce deems our increasingly multiple, polymorphous, and polylogous culture. "Weaving between theoretical speculations, reports of actual classroom usage, polemical addresses, and a rich web of allusions, Of Two Minds strongly makes the case that hypertext creates a topography of textuality that requires new mod es of thinking about texts." --N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles A volume in our Studies in Literature and Science series. Michael Joyce is Randolph Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, Vassar College. |
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... perhaps the most cogent , even traditional , essay here . As such it may serve as a litmus test for the wary reader , al- though the truth is , as the persistent reader will discover , that the stylistic calm of the encyclopedia gives ...
... perhaps the most cogent , even traditional , essay here . As such it may serve as a litmus test for the wary reader , al- though the truth is , as the persistent reader will discover , that the stylistic calm of the encyclopedia gives ...
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... ( perhaps on a theory about the epic and the undulant ) Eastgate Systems issued her text in a jewel box , unadorned by frontmatter . Both these statements , in their con- cerns with multiple stories and what in another essay I call ...
... ( perhaps on a theory about the epic and the undulant ) Eastgate Systems issued her text in a jewel box , unadorned by frontmatter . Both these statements , in their con- cerns with multiple stories and what in another essay I call ...
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... perhaps an in- stance of my more utopian mind , though it too comes from rather early on , and all that is late in it are the eponymous white men of its title . It was initially prepared as a so - called white paper for an ...
... perhaps an in- stance of my more utopian mind , though it too comes from rather early on , and all that is late in it are the eponymous white men of its title . It was initially prepared as a so - called white paper for an ...
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... perhaps its most famous line " There is no simple way to say this . " " The second statement was prepared as a contribution to one of the " Words on Works " issues pioneer electronic writer Judy Malloy edits for the Leonardo Electronic ...
... perhaps its most famous line " There is no simple way to say this . " " The second statement was prepared as a contribution to one of the " Words on Works " issues pioneer electronic writer Judy Malloy edits for the Leonardo Electronic ...
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... perhaps as many texts have migrated to ( and from ) this essay as any , the italics here do not in- dicate borrowings but , rather , the interstitial murmurs of texture and contour . Fashioned more likely in homage than in the manner or ...
... perhaps as many texts have migrated to ( and from ) this essay as any , the italics here do not in- dicate borrowings but , rather , the interstitial murmurs of texture and contour . Fashioned more likely in homage than in the manner or ...
Contents
Hypertext and Hypermedia | 19 |
What I Really Wanted to Do I Thought | 31 |
Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts | 39 |
Networks of Woven WaterThe Dangers of Transparency | 61 |
Patterns Out of Disjointedness in Two Hypertext Writing Communities | 67 |
Everyones Story Goes on without Us | 85 |
Empowering Silence and the Electric Book | 91 |
Governance and the City of Text | 105 |
The Textfile as Landscape | 159 |
The Ends of Print Culture a work in progress | 173 |
Artists StatementsGiving Ways before the Touch | 185 |
Hypertext Narrative | 189 |
What Happens as We Go? Hypertext Contour Interactive Cinema Virtual Reality and the Interstitial Arts of Jeffrey Shaw and Grahame Weinbren | 199 |
The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness | 219 |
Interstitial Links and the Contours of Hypertext | 227 |
Descriptive Summaries to Chapter Four | 247 |
Toward a Pedagogy for a New Cosmology | 117 |
Silicon Valley Maoists and Ohio Zen | 127 |
Subversive Texts and the Multiple Novel | 135 |
Dead White Men Also Compute | 149 |
Notes | 261 |
Works Cited | 269 |
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age of print artificial intelligence artist become Calvino characterizations Charles Olson choices city of text classroom collaborative Comp Writers constructive hypertexts contour create culture developed discourse discussion Eastgate Systems electronic text embodied Erin Mouré essay exploratory hypertexts graphical HT Writers human Hypercard hyperfiction hypermedia hypertext fiction hypertext systems hypertext writing imagine Interactive Cinema interactive fictions interchanges interfaces Interstitial Jay Bolter Joyce key words Khazars knowledge late age learners learning Lestat light linkplot machine marginal meaning memory mind Moulthrop multiple fiction narrative nodes novel Olson ourselves polylogue present processors proprioceptive question reader reading reciprocal Roger Schank screen seems sense session shape shift silence story Storyspace structure Stuart Moulthrop suggests talk teaching term things thought thread tion topographic transformation Uther versions viewer virtual reality visual Weinbren Yellowlees Douglas