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In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely well qualified to explore this stimulating topic.
The essays comprise what Joyce calls "theoretical narratives," woven from e-mail messages, hypertext "nodes," and other kinds of electronic text that move nomadically from one occasion or perspective to another, between the poles of art and instruction , teaching and writing. The nomadic movement of ideas is made effortless by the electronic medium, which makes it easy to cross borders (or erase them) with the swipe of a mouse, and which therefore challenges our notions of intellectual and artistic borders.
Joyce makes it clear that we are not just the natural heirs but, through our visions, the architects of new technologies that promise to enact our visions as much as change them. The collection summons writing from artists, poets, teachers, scientists, and feminist thinkers, and in so doing builds on notions of human possibility as a basis for the broadest kind of conversation in what Joyce deems our increasingly multiple, polymorphous, and polylogous culture.
"Weaving between theoretical speculations, reports of actual classroom usage, polemical addresses, and a rich web of allusions, Of Two Minds strongly makes the case that hypertext creates a topography of textuality that requires new mod es of thinking about texts." —N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles
A volume in our Studies in Literature and Science series.
Michael Joyce is Randolph Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, Vassar College.
| Introduction: The Comfort of Knowing We Are Not Lost | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Of Two Minds: Hypertext Contexts | |
| Hypertext and Hypermedia | 19 | |
| What I Really Wanted to Do I Thought | 31 | |
| Pt. 2 | Siren Shapes: Hypertext Pedagogy | |
| Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts | 39 | |
| Interstitial: Networks of Woven Water - The Dangers of Transparency | 61 | |
| What the Fish Lady Saw: Patterns Out of Disjointedness in Two Hypertext Writing Communities | 67 | |
| Interstitial: Everyone's Story Goes On without Us | 85 | |
| "So Much Time, so Little to Do": Empowering Silence and the Electric Book | 91 | |
| A Memphite Topography: Governance and the City of Text | 105 | |
| New Teaching: Toward a Pedagogy for a New Cosmology | 117 | |
| Interstitial: Silicon Valley Maoists and Ohio Zen | 127 | |
| Pt. 3 | Contours: Hypertext Poetics | |
| Selfish Interaction: Subversive Texts and the Multiple Novel | 135 | |
| Interstitial: Dead White Men Also Compute | 149 | |
| The Geography of the Word: The Textfile as Landscape | 159 | |
| "The Ends of Print Culture" (a work in progress) | 173 | |
| Interstitial: Artists' Statements - Giving Way(s) before the Touch | 185 | |
| Hypertext Narrative | 189 | |
| What Happens as We Go? Hypertext Contour, Interactive Cinema, Virtual Reality, and the Interstitial Arts of Jeffrey Shaw and Grahame Weinbren | 199 | |
| The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness | 219 | |
| A Feel for Prose: Interstitial Links and the Contours of Hypertext | 227 | |
| Appendix: Descriptive Summaries to Chapter Four | 247 | |
| Notes | 261 | |
| Works Cited | 269 |
Overview
In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely well qualified ...