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Hypertext with consequences: recovering a politics of hypertext

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Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the the seventh ACM conference on Hypertext table of contents

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Pages: 85 - 92

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-778-2

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Diane Greco

Program in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E51-070, Cambridge, MA

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SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Classic critiques of technology's impact on society include: Marcuse, Herbert. The One- Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press: Boston, 1964; Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. Oxford University Press: New York, 1967; Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich: New York, 1932.
	2	George P. Landow, Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1992
	3	Ibid., p.p. 23-30. For examples of the literary theory just mentioned here, see: Bakhtin, M. M, "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." The Dialogic imagination, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1981. pp. 42-83; Barthes, Roland. S/Z: An Essay. trans. Richard Miller. Hill and Wang: New York, 1974; and Derrida, Jacques Dissemination. trans. Barbara Johnson. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1981. See especially his mention of "histological" text (that is, writing as the production of a sort of palimpsest, much like a hypertext) on p. 65 and the discussion called "The Pharmakon" on pp. 95-117. Both contain provocative insights that are well-worth the effort of reading what is admittedly obscure prose.
	4	One example of criticism in this vein is: Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Faber and Faber: Boston, 1994.
	5	Gitlin, Todd. "Hip Deep in Postmodernism." The New York Times Book Review. 6 December 1988. pp. 35-36.
	6	Palattella, John. "Formatting Patrimony: the Rhetoric of Hypertext." Afterimage. June, 1995. pp. 18.
	7	Foucault, Michel. "'What is an Author?" Language, Countermemo~, Practice. ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Cornell UP: Ithaca, 1977. pp. 113-138.
	8	Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke UP: Durham, 1991. For example, on p. 137, Jameson writes: "{I}t is not the unity of the world that demands to be posited on the basis of the unity of the transcendental subject; rather, the unity or incoherence and fragmentation of the subject that is, the inaccessability of a workable subject position or the absence of one -- is itself a correlative of the unity or lack of unity of the outside world."
	9	Hartsock, Nancy. "Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women." FeminisrrdPostmodernism. ed. Linda J. Nicholson. Routledge: New York, 1990. pp. 170-172; Mascia-Lees, Sharpe, and Cohen. "The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Socie~ 15 (1), pp. 7-33; Nicholson, Linda. "On the Postmodern Barricades: Feminism, Politics, and Theory." Postmodernism and Social Theory. ed. Stephen Seideman and David Wagner. Blackwell, 1991. p. 82-100.
	10	Vannevar Bush, As we may think, Computer-supported cooperative work: a book of readings, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1988
	11	Douglas, C. Engelbart, A conceptual framework for the augmentation of man's intellect (Reprint), Computer-supported cooperative work: a book of readings, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1988
	12	Nelson, Theodor Holm. Literary Machines. Mindful Press: Sausalito, 1981.
	13	Jay David Bolter, Writing space: the computer, hypertext, and the history of writing, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ, 1991
	14	Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. Yale UP: New Haven, 1985. esp. chapters 1-3.
	15	Edwards, Paul. "Hypertext and Hypertension: Poststructuralist Critical Theory, Social Studies of Science and Software." Social Studies of Science 24 London, Thousand Oaks, and New Delhi: SAGE, 1994. pp. 229-78. Although not specifically about hypertext, S. J. Heims' study of early American cybernetics is provocative for thinking about how a form of cognitive psychology came to dominate mid-twentieth century academic discourse in the human science. See Heims, S. J. Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group, 1946- 1963. MIT Pre~: Cambridge, MA, 1991.
	16	Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto," Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge: New York, 1991.p. 152.
	17	See Harpold, Terence. "Conclusions." Hyper/Text/Theory. ed. George P. Landow, Johns Hopkins University Press' Baltimore, 1995 and Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Poetics, and Pedagogy. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1995.
	18	Guyer, Caroline. Quibbling. Eastgate Systems: Cambridge, MA, 1993.
	19	Carolyn Guyer, quoted in Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Poetics, and Pedagogy. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1995. p. 89.
	20	Ibid.
	21	Cramer, Kathryn. "In Small & Large Pieces." The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext 1(3) Eastgate Systems: Cambridge, MA, 1994. Douglas, Jane Yellowlees. "I Have Said Nothing." The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext 1(2) Eastgate Systems: Cambridge, MA, 1994.
	22	Sutherland, Kathryn. "Challenging Assumptions: Women Writers and New Technology." The Politics of Electronic Text. ed. Warren Cherniak, Caroline Davis, and Marilyn Deegan. Office for Humanities Publications: London, 1993. pp. 53-68.
	23	Greco, Diane. Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric. Eastgate Systems: Cambridge, MA, 1995.
	24	Virilio, Paul. The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Autonomedia: New York, 1991. p 92.
	25	Moulthrop, Stuart. "In the Zones: Hypertext and the Politics of Interpretation." Writing on the Edge 1 (1) Fall, 1989. pp. 18-27. See also Nelson, Theodor Holm. Computer Lib~Dream Machines. 2nd. ed. Tempus Books: Redmond, WA, 1987.
	26	Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1988. pp. 612-21.
	27	Danto, Arthur. Narration and Knowledge. New York, 1985. pp. xi-xii. Quoted in Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Quaxtion' and tha American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1988. p. 526.
	28	Edwards, Paul."Hypertext and Hypertension: Poststructuralist Critical Theory, Social Studies of Science and Software." Social Studies of Science 24 SAGE: London, Thousand Oaks, and New Delhi, 1994. pp. 229-78.
	29	Kolb, David. Socrates in the Labyrinth. Eastgate Systems: Cambridge, MA, 1995.
	30	Malloy, Judy and Cathy Marshall. Forward Anywhere. Eastgate Systems" Cambridge MA, forthcoming.
	31	Paul, Christiane. Unreal City: a hypertext companion to T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land.' Eastgate Systems: Cambridge, MA, 1994.
	32	Pamela Samuelson , Robert J. Glushko, Intellectual property rights for digital library and hypertext publishing systems: an analysis of Xanadu, Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext, p.39-50, December 15-18, 1991, San Antonio, Texas, United States [doi>10.1145/122974.122979]
	33	Landow, George P. "What's a Critic to Do?" Hyper/Text/Theory. ed. George P. Landow. Johns Hopkins University Press" Baltimore, 1995. p. 44.

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