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Joanvinallcox bookmarked on 2009-07-13 hyperlink rhetoric reading browsing

WOW!!!!!

      • Or you could think of browsing as a new kind of ludic: an  unsettling, fragmented experience that is still comprehensible in the sense that a David Lynch movie is comprehensible. It is a kind of ludic that can never be created within one brain.  Click trails are texts whose coherence derives from your mind, but whose elements derive from multiple other minds.

      In other words, when you browse and skim, you aren’t distracted and unfocused. You are just reading a very dissonant book you just made up.

  • The multi-voiced nature of today’s hyper-writing is different. The difference lies in the fact that the entire world of human experience has been textualized online.

This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 06 Jul 2009, by Javier Neira.

  • 13 Oct 09
  • 13 Jul 09
    shanta
    Shanta Rohse

    "Before movable type, the epics and religious texts of the ancient world were harmonies of multiple voices. But what we have today is not a resurrected age of epics. The multi-voiced nature of today’s hyper-writing is different. The difference lies in the fact that the entire world of human experience has been textualized online."

    via:@joanvinallcox hyperlink venkatesh_rao hypertext

        • Or you could think of browsing as a new kind of ludic: an  unsettling, fragmented experience that is still comprehensible in the sense that a David Lynch movie is comprehensible. It is a kind of ludic that can never be created within one brain.  Click trails are texts whose coherence derives from your mind, but whose elements derive from multiple other minds.

        In other words, when you browse and skim, you aren’t distracted and unfocused. You are just reading a very dissonant book you just made up.

    • The multi-voiced nature of today’s hyper-writing is different. The difference lies in the fact that the entire world of human experience has been textualized online.
  • 06 Jul 09
  • 03 Jul 09
    heinzwittenbrink
    Heinz Wittenbrink

    Essay über Hyperlinks mit wirklich neuen Gedanken, z.B. Link als Vermischung von Stimme, Figur und Grund. Ausserdem Überlegungen zur Konstruktion der Bedeutung eines Texts mithilfe der Profile des Autors.

    by:VenkateshRao via:MartinLindner hypertext writing

  • 02 Jul 09
  • jurijmlotman
    Martin Lindner

    The hyperlink is the most elemental of the bundle of ideas that we call the Web. If the bit is the quark of information, the hyperlink is the hydrogen molecule. It shapes the microstructure of information today. Surprisingly though, it is nearly as myst

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