Hypertext: Theories and Examples

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Collection of Hypertext literature in English and Chinese by 李順興
As We May Think
妙繆廟

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• Individual Theorists

  
  Roland Barthes
  1. Barthean Codes (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
  2. Secondary Literature
     • Brad Menpes (U. Warwick), "Ideology and Responsibility: Derrida, Barthes, and a Question of Method" (Work in Progress, U. Warwick) English Dept.
       　
  Jean Baudrillard
  • General Resources
    1. *Baudrillard/Simulacra - an Introduction; part of a larger project on postmodern theory by Hyoejin Yoon.
    2. Implosion -- What does it Mean?
    3. *Baudrillard on the Web (Alan Taylor): a list of links to works about and by Jean Baudrillard
    4. Project Baudrillard--not a comprehensive introd, but this site has some interesting reflections of  some grad. students on a lot of Baudrillard's books.--interesting.
    5. *S(t)imulacrum(b) (extensive Baudrillard page with annotated bibliography and text selections) (Ben Attias)
  • Writings
    1. America (brief excerpts) (1986) (Industrial Strength Travel)
  • Relevant Courses
    1. "COLLAB-l: CyberWars" ("two seminars being offered at two different geographical sites")
       • Cynthia A. Haynes (U. Texas, Dallas), "Baudrillard and the Problem of Simulation/Mimesis"
       • Victor J. Vitanza (U. Texas, Arlington), "Baudrillard and the Problem of Simulation"
  Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
  1. General Resources
     1. Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
     2. The Deleuze & Guattari Page (Spoon Collective; Jon Beasley-Murray & Jim Castonguay) | D & G Links
     3. Deleuze and Guattari Internet Resources (Jon Beasley-Murray)
     4. Deleuze & Guattari on the Web (primary and secondary works) (Alan Taylor, U. Texas, Arlington)
  2. Writings & Interviews
     1. D+G Bibliography (Lorri Nandrea)
     2. Gilles Deleuze, "Desire & Pleasure" (1994) (1997 trans. by Melissa McMahon) (Globe E-Journal)
     3. Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State U.), "Pragmatic/Machinic: Discussion with Felix Guattari (19 March 1985)
  3. Other Relevant Pages
     1. Smooth/Striated Cyberspace (assemblage of comments and links relating the web to Deleuze and Guattari's notion of "smooth space")
  4. Secondary Literature
     1. Ian Buchahan (U. Tasmania), "Deleuze and Pop Music" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
     2. Vadim Linetski (Hebrew U., Jerusalem), "The Promise of Expression to the 'Inexpressible Childe': Deleuze, Derrida and the Impossibility of Adult's Literature" (1997) (Perforations)
     3. David N. Rodowick (Cornell U.), Gilles Deleuze's Time-Machine (Chapter One) (1997)
     4. Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State U.), "Pragmatic/Machinic: Discussion with Felix Guattari (19 March 1985)
        　
  Jacques Derrida
  1. General Resources
     1. Derrida and Deconstruction (David Arnason, U. Manitoba)
     2. Glasweb (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     3. Writing in Reserve: Deconstruction on the Net (Derrida page) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     4. Bibliography of Publications by Derrida (organized by year) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     5. Bibliography of Derrida Bibliographies (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     6. Foreign Body ("a deconstructive fanzine. Its purpose is to spread, like a virus") (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
  2. Writings & Interviews
     1. Jacques Derrida (selective bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
     2. "Architecture New York" (Summary of Impromptu Remarks) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     3. Applied Derrida (interview with Derrida) (Writing in Reserve)
     4. Letter to a Japanese Friend (1983) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     5. Jewish Mystic? (part of an interview with Derrida) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
     6. Elizabeth Weber (U. California, Santa Barbara), "To Experience the Future and Welcome the Monster" (interview with Derrida) (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
  3. Secondary Literature
     1. "Conversation with Geoffrey Bennington" (on the relation between deconstruction and hypertext, the Internet, and information technology) (Seulemonde)
     2. Kip Canfield (U. Maryland), "The Microstructure of Logocentrism: Sign Models in Derrida and Smolensky" (1993)
     3. Derrida: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
     4. Steven Helmling (U. Delaware), "Historicizing Derrida" (1994) (Postmodern Culture)
     5. Vadim Linetski (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
        • "The Natural Beauty of Deconstruction" (1996) (Perforations)
        • "The Promise of Expression to the 'Inexpressible Childe': Deleuze, Derrida and the Impossibility of Adult's Literature" (1997) (Perforations)
     6. Notes on diffrance (John Lye, Brock U.)
  Frederic Jameson
  • For Beginners
    1. Synopsis of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
  • Bibliographies
    1. An exhaustive bibliography of works by and about Fredric Jameson is available as part of  the Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliograpies.
    2. Frederic Jameson (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
   
  1. Frederic Jameson Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.)
     　
  • Essays
    1. "Theory in the Lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel: The Case of Fredric Jameson" (Re:WIRED; Workshop for the Invention and Research of Electronic Discourse, U. of Florida)
    2. Frederic Jameson and the Limits of Postmodern Theory -- Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U ),. Sheffield
    3. Jameson's Lacan -- Steven Helmling
    4. Jameson's Postmodernism -- Jim English
    5. Marxist Pleasure: Jameson and Eagleton -- Steven Helmling
    Jean-Francois Lyotard
  1. Jean Francois Lyotard's The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia - Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities)
  2. Jean-Francois Lyotard (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine)
  3. Lyotard: Bibliography-in-Progress (Spoon Collective Lyotard List)
  4. Spoon Collective Lyotard List (Shawn P. Wilbur)
  J. Hillis Miller (U. California, Irvine)
  1. J. Hillis Miller Page (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
  2. Synopsis of J. Hillis Miller, "The Critic as Host" (John Lye, Brock U.)
  Paul Virilio
  • General Resources
    1. Paul Virilio Page (Enterprise)

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Cultural Examples

 Art
 Postmodernism and Art History (articles "on over three years of exhibitions at museums and galleries"; browseable "by artist, period in art history, or postmodern ideas"; I link artists and ideas, because I write about artists that get me thinking") (John Haber)
 Andy Warhol  The Andy Warhol Museum
 

 Popular Culture
 Blade Runner Andrew Benjamin (U. Warwick), "At Home with Replicants: The Architecture of Blade Runner" (Basilisk)

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Essays and Sites on Specific PM Topics

 Essays
 Illuminations -- Contributions from Douglas Kellner.  A lot of his essays.
 World 3 Voices (collaborative hypertext project that "samples" postmodern theory; very cool and technically interesting)
 Melissa McMahon, "Beauty: Machinic Repetition in the Age of Art" (1996) (Globe E-Journal)
 Barbara Christian: "The Race for Theory" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)