Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

by Johndan Johnson-Eilola

Overview

This volume examines the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory, radical and border pedagogies, and technology criticism, the text discusses three primary ways hypertext is articulated: as automated book (technical communication), as virtual commodity (online databases), and as environment for constructing and exploring multiple subject positions (postmodern hypertext in composition and literature). I would recommend the entire book to researchers and academics who recognize the need to integrate new technologies into our classrooms and pedagogies. - Technical Communication

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567502800
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Border Times: Writing and Being Written in Hypertext
Searching for Borders in PomoLand
Socializing Technology: Function and Critique in Literacy
Standing on the Border
Technology and Possibility
From Postmodernism to Cultural Studies: Approaches to Critical Literacies of Hypertext
Technology and/as Society
Border Crossings, Contact Zones and Articulations
Invading the Heartland: Critique and Change
Little Machines: Hypertext, Automation, and the Politics of Amnesia
An Automatic Book: The HyperCard Help Stack
How to Read a Book: The Legacy of Shannon and Weaver
Locating Control: Managing People and/as Information
Articulating Literacies of Hypertext: Maps and Traces, Functions and Critiques
Economies of Hyperspace: Digital Colonies and Markets
Space as Commodity, Space as Construction
Scholarship in the Late Age of Print
Language and Space
Information as Market and Commodity
Space
Commodity in Online Information Systems
The Economy of the Interface
Reclaiming Territory
X-Ray Vision and Perpetual Motion: Hypertext as Postmodern Space
Geometry and Geography
Hypertext, Postmodernism, and Subjectivity
X-Ray Vision: Institutionally Sanctioned Geometries
Perpetual Motion: "Forking Paths" and the Loss of Center(s) in Hypertext and the Postpolitical Writer/Reader
Angels in Rehab: Rearticulating Hyper-text Writing
Opposition and Movement: From Or to And
Teaching as Appropriating
Rearticulating Postmodern Space: Social and Political Forces
Rearticulating Economies of Research Space
Contagion: Rearticulating the Little Machine
The Classroom and the World
References
Author Index
Subject Index