MachineMachine /stream - tagged with hypertext http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Writing (Hyper)text and Image http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/02/writing-hypertext-and-image-a-polyptychal-discursion.html A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a writer's statements, but through a reader's response. A spiral of concepts ruptures the words, burrowing underneath the palimpsest, pulling you, the reader, into the written phrase. Response is required of any reading. The internet is a form capable of allowing a reader's response to influence the writer's trajectory; to send the written back into itself, melding… ]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:07:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/02/writing-hypertext-and-image-a-polyptychal-discursion.html New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/114323 I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of oral culture, through his mimesis of Socrates' dialogues in writing. Following Plato, Aristotle's theory was always a written mimesis, thus the order and processes of representation and mimicry were fundamentally written.

In essence, I am interested in how the artefacts of oral culture differed in their mimesis to written culture, and thus, how our modern move from a written to a digital/hypertextual culture will similarly impact on mimetic embodiment.
… ]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:09:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/114323 Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/reading-extra.html?ref=books What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing on the Internet. It is impossible to write about any one piece of research at great length, so for those interested in more in-depth information, here are links to some studies, speeches, reading tests — old and new — and other resources. ]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:55:00 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/reading-extra.html?ref=books The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/3786/The-Metaphor-is-the-Message-Part-II-PalimpsestsPalimpsestsPalimpsests
This slice in hyperspace follows on from these past posts:
  • How things 'become': The infinity of definition
  • The Archaeology of 'The Book'
  • hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message" (Part I)

    • ...and is a direct response to this post by Robokku:
  • Temporal Hypertext

    • Time is important in the definition of any model, hypertextual or otherwise. At the moment I am interested in how new technologies allow us new ways to see, to realise the world around us. This constant re-definition of our realities can actually add temporality to… ]]>     Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:57:00 -0700 http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/3786/The-Metaphor-is-the-Message-Part-II-PalimpsestsPalimpsestsPalimpsests     hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message" http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/3735/hypertextThe-Metaphor-is-the-Message Readers: Do you think in hypertext?

    The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web - who'd have thought it - a net of knots in time and space, a palimpsest with infinite, self-referential layers.

    I find that the model of hypertext has become the metaphor via which my thoughts, my research, finds form. I can't read one book at a time. Instead I skip between many, following an annotation in one, buying a bibiliographed reference, dipping into books by… ]]>     Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:22:00 -0700 http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/3735/hypertextThe-Metaphor-is-the-Message