Landow 1997: "Reconfiguring the Text":

"Reconfiguring the Text" (Landow 1997; 49ff): "What is the object we read, and what is a text in hypertext?" "(...) hypertext radically changes the experiences that reading, writing, and text signify" (Landow 1997; 57); so: "what to call ´text´ in the medium of hypertext"? (Landow 1997; 59) Tendenz: "hypertextual translation of scribal culture": "removing the linearity of print", "hypertext destroys the notion of a fixed unitary text" (Landow 1997; 65); "digital technology (...) calls into question the assumptions of print-associated editorial theory" (Landow 1997; 68); und: ""this nwe information technology reconfigures not only our experience of textuality but also our conceptions of the author´s relation to the text, for it inevitibly produces several forms of asynchronous collaboration." (Landow 1997; 69) Und, weiterhin: "the scholarly editor must decide how to link various texts." (Landow 1997; 69) "the information architect as hypertext author"! (Landow 1997; 76); "Hypertext linking, which tends to change the roles of author and reader, also changes the limits of the individual text." (Landow 1997; 83) "hypertextual dissolution of centrality" - "a model of a society of conversations in which no one conversation, no one discipline or ideology, dominates or founds th other". (Landow 1997; 89) "the linear habits of thought associated with print technology" (Landow 1997; 98); "critical theorists (...) continually confront the limitation - indeed, the exhaustion - of the culture of print. They write form an awareness of limitation and shortcoming, and from a moody nostalgia, often before the fact, over the losses their disillusionment has brought and will bring. Writers on hypertext, in contrast, glory in possibilty, excited by the future of textuality, knowledge, and writing." (Landow 1997; 103) "Hypermedia" - "this reader-centered information technology" (Landow 1997; 104); "collaboration associated with hypertext" (Landow 1997; 104); "information technology from Gutenberg to the present - the technology of the book - systematically has hindered full recognition of collaborative authorship" (Landow 1997; 106); "examples of collaboration in hypertext": (Landow 1997; 110ff) "Hypermedia, like cinema and video or opera, is a team production." (Landow 1997; 114) - "Reconfiguring Writing" (Landow 1997; 115ff): "what new forms of organization, rhetoric and structure must we develop to communicate effectively in electronic space?" (Landow 1997; 123) "to employ a rhetoric of linking" (Landow 1997; 125; vergl. auch die dann folgenden Seiten, konkretere, <aber in Sachen Text-Design nicht unbedingt einfallsreiche!>, Ausführungen dazu); "linking materials encourageshabits of relational thinking in the reader" (Landow 1997; 125); "developing new modes of reading and writing" - etwa wenn "we translate print into digital text and then hypertextualize it for several reasons"(Landow 1997; 154), also beim "translating a book into an electronic environment", into "hypermedia" (Landow 1997; 155; 155ff); "new scholarly and creative writing" (Landow 1997; 156); "hyperwriting", "hypermedia rhetoric and stylistics" (Landow 1997; 163); "hypermedia replacements for the book" (Landow 1997; 165); "hypertext as collage" (Landow 1997; 167);